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Here's me wondering how many more years will pass before the Wayland support is going GA.
What are some good primers to understand the prominent new Java features? Not just in 20, but since, say, 8. Asking as someone who would like to be cursorily familiar with Java, but does not use it day to day. I'm very familiar with things like auto type inference, pattern matching, multi-line strings and structured concurrency from other languages, so I'm not looking for an introduction to Java. I'm looking for some…
Why not just use C# instead? It was purposefully designed to address and correct the many mistakes of Java, and much more importantly, it's not owned by Oracle.
Isn’t openjdk disconnected from Oracle?
But as I expanded a bit more here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35249701 ), Java is probably the safest bet from a code longevity perspective.
Why not just use C# instead? It was purposefully designed to address and correct the many mistakes of Java, and much more importantly, it's not owned by Oracle.
AFAIK Java was GPL'd by Sun (before the Oracle purchase). This resulted in the OpenJDK, which is the basis for all distributions of Java. Oracle is a big contributor to the development, but so are many others. You can get a pure OpenJDK or any of a number of branded JDKs like those from Eclipse, BellSoft, etc. You can get non-free distributions with support too. A sticking point for a number of years was the TCK (Tec…
If so, is there a reason to go with OpenJDK over Oracle other than GPL purity?
Again, legit question, no axes to grind.
What are some good primers to understand the prominent new Java features? Not just in 20, but since, say, 8. Asking as someone who would like to be cursorily familiar with Java, but does not use it day to day. I'm very familiar with things like auto type inference, pattern matching, multi-line strings and structured concurrency from other languages, so I'm not looking for an introduction to Java. I'm looking for some…
Boring answer... but Chat GPT? I asked it what was new in Java 8 and it enumerated a number of features. I could proceed to ask it about more details for each, and then continue Java version by version and I think it would be quite exhaustive. The other day I did something similar for cell biology. As a layman I wanted to learn more about DNA, mRNA, tRNA, translation, transcription, mitosis, miosis, etc. I think I le…
Trained on data up to September 2021.
Really excited to see how virtual threads are taken up by developers, and if they affect the larger programming language community. They just really seem like "the best of both worlds" to me: the high scalability/low resource usage of async/await, with the ease-of-use experience of threads (e.g. not having to worry about "function coloring").
Will calling a coroutine do zero heap allocations like async in Rust?
> with the ease-of-use experience of threads
That's highly subjective. Threads usually require locking which is often hard to get performant and correct at the same time. Async/await allows to write concurrent code with no synchronization.
Java 8 is the best Java.
What are some good primers to understand the prominent new Java features? Not just in 20, but since, say, 8. Asking as someone who would like to be cursorily familiar with Java, but does not use it day to day. I'm very familiar with things like auto type inference, pattern matching, multi-line strings and structured concurrency from other languages, so I'm not looking for an introduction to Java. I'm looking for some…
Boring answer... but Chat GPT? I asked it what was new in Java 8 and it enumerated a number of features. I could proceed to ask it about more details for each, and then continue Java version by version and I think it would be quite exhaustive. The other day I did something similar for cell biology. As a layman I wanted to learn more about DNA, mRNA, tRNA, translation, transcription, mitosis, miosis, etc. I think I le…
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Boring answer... but Chat GPT? I asked it what was new in Java 8 and it enumerated a number of features. I could proceed to ask it about more details for each, and then continue Java version by version and I think it would be quite exhaustive. The other day I did something similar for cell biology. As a layman I wanted to learn more about DNA, mRNA, tRNA, translation, transcription, mitosis, miosis, etc. I think I le…
> Boring answer... but Chat GPT? Trained on data up to September 2021.
Wrap the ChatGPT API in a ReAct pattern implementation where one of its available actions is a search against the Java 20 docs?
Probably better for reference than tutorial, though.