Primitive types in general are planned for deprecation in future releases of Java. The 8-bit / 16-bit data structures have been obsolete for quite some time. If

Primitive types in general are planned for deprecation in future releases of Java. The 8-bit / 16-bit data structures have been obsolete for quite some time. If you haven't used them in your career yet as a software developer it's a good sign of progress that our industry is evolving beyond legacy technologies onto more enlightened thinking.