Why must i build ALL of NIOCore just to say the name ByteBuffer?

[tera]

Very interesting reading, thank you.

@lukasa

ByteBuffer is laser focused on what NIO needs.
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the lower bound of the slice is stored in a UInt24 and cannot exceed 16MB.

Also, as just noted, it has a maximum size limit of 4GB! For server use-cases that's fine, but for file-backed parsing it's an absolute non-starter.

It feels a name like "NIOByteBuffer" or "NetworkPacketBuffer" would have been a better choice. I can see how people who can't use Foundation's Data and for some reason can't also use [UInt8] may arrive at considering a generically named "ByteBuffer" assuming it is, basically, "a Foundation's Data analogue without the baggage of Foundation."