这是对高斯林和其他人的采访，关于简单:

Gosling: For me as a language designer, which I don't really count myself as these days, what "simple" really ended up meaning was could I expect J. Random Developer to hold the spec in his head. That definition says that, for instance, Java isn't -- and in fact a lot of these languages end up with a lot of corner cases, things that nobody really understands. Quiz any C developer about unsigned, and pretty soon you discover that almost no C developers actually understand what goes on with unsigned, what unsigned arithmetic is. Things like that made C complex. The language part of Java is, I think, pretty simple. The libraries you have to look up.

http://skeletoncoder.blogspot.com/2006/09/java-tutorials-why-no-unsigned.html

这个家伙说，因为C标准定义了包含无符号整型和有符号整型的操作被视为无符号整型。这可能导致负符号整数滚动到一个大的无符号整数，可能会导致错误。

这是对高斯林和其他人的采访，关于简单:

Gosling: For me as a language designer, which I don't really count myself as these days, what "simple" really ended up meaning was could I expect J. Random Developer to hold the spec in his head. That definition says that, for instance, Java isn't -- and in fact a lot of these languages end up with a lot of corner cases, things that nobody really understands. Quiz any C developer about unsigned, and pretty soon you discover that almost no C developers actually understand what goes on with unsigned, what unsigned arithmetic is. Things like that made C complex. The language part of Java is, I think, pretty simple. The libraries you have to look up.

我知道这个帖子太老了;但是，在Java 8及以后版本中，您可以使用int数据类型来表示无符号32位整数，其最小值为0，最大值为232−1。使用Integer类使用int数据类型作为无符号整数，并且像compareUnsigned()， divideUnsigned()等静态方法已经添加到Integer类中，以支持无符号整数的算术操作。

在JDK8中，它确实提供了一些支持。

尽管有Gosling的担忧，但我们仍然可能看到Java对unsigned类型的完全支持。

字里行间，我认为逻辑是这样的:

通常，Java设计人员希望简化可用的数据类型 对于日常用途，他们认为最常见的需求是有符号的数据类型 为了实现某些算法，有时需要无符号算术，但是要实现这种算法的程序员也应该具备使用有符号数据类型进行无符号算术的知识

总的来说，我认为这是一个合理的决定。我可能会:

使字节无符号，或者至少为这一数据类型提供了有符号/无符号的替代选项，可能使用不同的名称(使它有符号有利于一致性，但什么时候需要有符号字节?) 不再使用“short”(你上次使用16位符号算术是什么时候?)

不过，只要稍加修饰，对32位以内的无符号值进行运算就不会太糟糕，而且大多数人不需要无符号64位除法或比较。