Printwriter vs System.out.println()

[Muhammad usman shad]

why we dont use Printwriter class for output in java instead of system.out.println???

[Sagar Rohankar]

JavaDocs wrote:
All characters printed by a PrintStream are converted into bytes using the platform's default character encoding. The PrintWriter class should be used in situations that require writing characters rather than bytes.

[John de Michele]

Muhammad:

It is also because the PrintWriter class didn't come until JDK 1.1, while the System and PrintStream classes have been in the API since 1.0. Since the in/out/err objects are publicly exposed, they couldn't be changed without breaking backwards compatibility.

John.

[Sagar Rohankar]

Thats more correct answer, John.