The article is definitely super ranty and a bit overblown. The Fork/Join framework is actually pretty solid and works for a wide variety of use cases and has a

The article is definitely super ranty and a bit overblown. The Fork/Join framework is actually pretty solid and works for a wide variety of use cases and has a relatively simple API. It's an excellent article though and I highly recommend anyone implementing the use of Fork/Join to read it and get more in depth knowledge. Java 8 made some improvements in code quality and safety and the framework underlies all of the parallel streaming abstractions used going forward. It's definitely worth learning all of the concurrency abstractions available in the JDK too though!