Ehh... When there are many questions on SO asking how to read a file in Java and the answers all require about a dozen LOC and have hundreds of upvotes [0,1,2]

Ehh... When there are many questions on SO asking how to read a file in Java and the answers all require about a dozen LOC and have hundreds of upvotes [0,1,2] I think I agree with the earlier comment that it's more a barrier to distribution and acquisition of modules. There are plenty of tiny npm modules that do less than a Java wrapper for easily reading files would. [0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4716503/reading-a-plain-text-file-in-java http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4716503/reading-a-plain-t... [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/326390/how-do-i-create-a-java-string-from-the-contents-of-a-file http://stackoverflow.com/questions/326390/how-do-i-create-a-... [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3402735/what-is-simplest-way-to-read-a-file-into-string http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3402735/what-is-simplest-...