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Despite me reading wikipedia and such, I still don’t really understand what Thread Safety means in a programming sense. Is anyone able to give some Java examples in layman terms? Such as what makes a thread safe vs a thread unsafe?
Thanks!
I think it is helpful to think in terms of concrete things outside the computer. (Concurrent programming was being done long before the invention of digital computers.)
A car is a process. An intersection is a shared resource. If the light is green in multiple directions at the same time, then it is probably not thread safe.