Project Loom introduces the concept of Virtual Threads to Java's runtime and will be available as a stable feature in JDK 21.To achieve the performance goals, any blocking operations need to be handled by Loom's runtime in a special way.
  • isaiah@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Interesting - my company largely maxing out at Java 9, I often forget about how far Java has come now that it’s working on v21 😳

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Gotta love how, despite Java receiving frequent updates, devs often have to stay in older versions if they want their stuff to work. GG oracle

      • Tom@programming.devM
        3·
        1 year ago

        In my experience, Java has a lot fewer breaking changes with upgrades compared to other languages. Compared to Python or even PHP and Java looks slow, steady, and predictable.

      • agilob@programming.devOP
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        1 year ago

        Except that keeping Java in a good shape is the thing Oracle is doing really, really well. There are plenty of open processes, discussion boards, votes, technical review processes and open contribution model, open source licence allowing anyone make own distro and contribute to OJDK easily.