Java threads were killable originally. Then it turned out to be impossible to use safely, so it got deprecated: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/

Java threads were killable originally. Then it turned out to be impossible to use safely, so it got deprecated: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/misc/threadPrimitiveDeprecation.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/misc/threadP...