Java - Quo Vadis?
summary
A Java Platform compiler engineer reviews recent and upcoming changes to the Java language and runtime, focusing on Project Panama, Loom, Amber, Valhalla and Metropolis and innovations like Project Jigsaw and GraalVM. The talk explains how these projects aim to evolve language features, concurrency, native interop, value types and platform architecture, and examines Java’s fit for modern cloud environments and serverless coding patterns.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 7:46The Next Big Opportunities
- 8:57Project Amber
- 13:23Project Skara
- 14:18Project Panama
- 16:31Project Loom
- 18:25Project Metropolis
- 20:26Project Portola
- 21:10Project Valhalla
- 22:42The JVM - An application developer's view
- 23:39The JVM - AVM engineer's view
- 31:42Storage formats
- 32:39Just-in-time compiler support
- 33:18Avoiding Inline type allocations
- 35:47Performance: Ackermann
- 37:02Performance: Mandelbrot
- 39:49Milestones
- 40:55Summary
- 41:45Questions
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