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> It's an old and tired API, inefficient, slow..

And of course the python logging library was inspired on it. Sigh...

One part of the std python lib that needed a big overhaul

The system logger is intentionally designed for use by standard Java classes, not by user code. It’s to help unify the various ways JDK functionality configures logging so that it can be delegated to a proper library like Log4j.

Didn’t know about System.logger(), interesting! Everyone seems to use slf4j via Logback.

This is so typical of Java.

People still write tutorials about the obsolete HttpUrlConnection in 2023, when HttpClient exists.

In fact, almost every API in the Java standard library is bad and once they realize the necessity to replace it, they add a second actually usable API that nobody uses.

This seems typical of every language that survives for more than 20 years.