Java Renaissance • Georges Saab • YOW! 2023

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This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2023. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Georges Saab - Senior Vice President of Software Development for the Java Platform Group at Oracle RESOURCES https://twitter.com/gsaab https://linkedin.com/in/georgessaab https://mastodon.nu/@saab ABSTRACT Java 21 is here and with it exciting times for the Java ecosystem. Georges Saab, the SVP of Java development at Oracle and Chair of the OpenJDK Governing Board will reflect on the factors that have brought a new wave of enthusiasm for Java and why the future is bright for this perennial favorite platform. Learn more about how features are selected for Java and how they will help you solve your biggest development challenges. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:29 A look back at the "bad old days" 05:55 Turning the ship 08:39 Skepticism at first... 12:18 The payoff 14:49 JDK 21 features 16:46 Active projects in the OpenJDK community 18:41 Project Loom 20:19 Virtual threads 22:11 Breaking the bottleneck 23:47 Same abstraction, new mindset 24:12 Case study: Helidon Níma 24:52 Garbage collector 27:56 Project Panama 30:42 Project Amber 31:42 Data-oriented programming 32:52 Java in the small 33:57 Paving the on ramp 36:35 Oracle Java platform extension for VS Code 37:23 Java playground 41:33 Yesterday's solutions, today's problems 42:43 Call to action 42:51 Cue the skepticism 43:12 Project Leyden 43:54 Why do we do it this way? 4449 Shifting computation 46:21 Outro Read the full abstract here:

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