When should we use Java’s Thread over Executor?

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To give some history, Executors were only added as part of the java standard in Java 1.5. So in some ways Executors can be seen as a new better abstraction for dealing with Runnable tasks.

A bit of an over-simplification coming… – Executors are threads done right so use them in preference.

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