Not Your Father's Java, Not Your Mother's JavaScript
Talkat JCON Europe 2023 · on Thursday, 2023-06-22· at 12:00· Cinema 6, Im Mediapark 1, 50670 Köln, Germany·
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Claim: Java ships feature releases twice a year while ECMAScript updates yearly, and runtimes converge — a WebAssembly JVM exists and GraalVM/Truffle runs polyglot code (JS, R, etc.) with native-image support. TypeScript compiles for server use and JavaScript engines (V8/Node) reach production-grade performance; jQuery still underpins ~70% of sites. Recent Java additions include records, pattern matching, text blocks and virtual threads, and JS gains classes, private fields, BigInt, async/await and maps.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and topic
- 2:28Java and JavaScript origins
- 6:07Java's evolution and strengths
- 11:10JavaScript's dynamic nature
- 17:57Enterprise Java and XML
- 23:42Web 2.0 and jQuery
- 27:39JavaScript engines and Nashorn
- 31:37TypeScript and modern JavaScript
- 36:59GraalVM and polyglot programming
- 42:06Java 17 features and future
- 47:50Q&A and closing
