The Future of Java: asynchronous programming with Loom
summary
Loom introduces a new lightweight thread model in the JDK to enable a different asynchronous programming approach: virtual threads that can be created in large numbers. The talk shows early preview builds and code patterns for async and structured concurrency, including scopes and per-scope locals, with minimal slides and many code examples to demonstrate how Loom changes writing asynchronous Java.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Async programming with Loom
- 3:12Loom: OpenJDK project
- 6:01Java concurrency evolution
- 9:53Why concurrency is complex
- 16:33Limits of async
- 18:23Virtual threads: Loom's solution
- 23:17Demo: weather server
- 37:47Handling results and exceptions
- 43:25Q&A
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