>no unsigned integers technically, char is unsigned. For practical purposes use ByteBuffer. >no freestanding functions you can "import static" all the static

>no unsigned integers technically, char is unsigned. For practical purposes use ByteBuffer. >no freestanding functions you can "import static" all the static functions you want; it's not any different than C, where you need to include the headers. > pom files are a huge pain That has nothing to do w/ java, itself, like at all. >you can't actually use javac to compile your code. everything is so big and complicated you have to use ant, gradle, maven, etc. If you use ant, how did you get to use pom? That's pretty much saying that using 'make' is terrible. For personal projects that involve no web, I don't quite need anything else but the JDK, itself. In that case, it's totally doable to call javac form the command line.