Foojay Podcast #5: OpenJDK Discussion Panel

It’s September 20th, OpenJDK 19 has been released. In this podcast, we discuss the new features and the changes that this release brings.

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Erik Costlow (Azul)

0'00 Short intro and music

0'15 Introduction about the shift of Java releases to a 6-month release cycle and version 19

0'55 Introduction Speakers and Host

3'30 Review of articles published on Foojay regarding the new JDK 19 features

4'00 What is project Loom and virtual threads?

4'55 What can we expect in OpenJDK 19?

6'10 Project Amber, pattern matching, switch cases

7'10 Massive throughput with virtual threads

8'45 About preview and incubator features

12'50 Platform versus virtual threads

17'05 Java is becoming much stronger, reducing the need for extra frameworks

18'15 Java versus other languages

21'40 How trading companies can profit from virtual threads

22'50 Project Panama, shared memory use

28'05 About jextract

29'35 About Java versions, LTS, and how they are used

33'35 Record patterns

35'40 Maintainability and developer productivity

37'40 The importance of keeping up with other languages to keep Java “cool” for developers

43'30 About Java modules

45'45 Outro