C still suffers from lack of real Unicode. One of Java's other big wins was unicode out of the box. Granted it was two-byte unicode, but still... it was aware

C still suffers from lack of real Unicode. One of Java's other big wins was unicode out of the box. Granted it was two-byte unicode, but still... it was aware it was a thing. I write Groovy with @CompileStatic. I do sigh when I have to "drop back" to Java. Much like Valgrind for C, IDEs helped out with Java's rough edges.