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Why can CompletableFuture still block your application?
Tests whether you know calling .get() or .join() defeats the async design by blocking the calling thread, and that blocking calls inside callback stages (thenApply/thenCompose) without specifying an executor can starve the shared ForkJoinPool.commonPool().
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