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No, it's a design choice, not a 'failure'. Hidden behavior has its own pitfalls, and you can argue this all day, but there are already 100 languages which go th
by smolder 5y ago
No, it's a design choice, not a 'failure'. Hidden behavior has its own pitfalls, and you can argue this all day, but there are already 100 languages which go the other way and cleverly optimize things behind the scenes every chance they get. I wouldn't mind much if they made IO buffered by default, but I don't mind it's not, either, because it's consistent with the design ethos.