What happens when I dont use reactive Quarkus extensions?

Question

if I dont use the reactive extensions for Quarkus Is the I/O op going to be non-blocking or blocking? I am asking this because I didnt like the reactive programming style, I wish I could have something like c# async await for java

Answer 1

The fact that Quarkus is reactive under the hood, does not force users to do any reactive programming.

Users are free (and in most cases encouraged) to use regular blocking APIs. When that is done, Quarkus will delegate the work to worker threads.

Some details can be found here.