Synchronous Messages

The official Java documentary, Write Once Run Forever, was released to the public today!

Peter Naur wrote an article in 1985 entitled Programming as Theory Building.

There’s been a fair amount of churn through the JDK source code recently, up until Rampdown Phase 1 of JDK 24, which was last week.

Well, it’s not actually a JDK 21 feature; it was added in JDK 19.

I’m watching the latest JEP Café video from my colleague José Paumard, where he talks about the Comparator interface.

Now that JEP 421 (Deprecate Finalization for Removal) has been delivered in JDK 18, it seems like more people are talking about finalization and how to migrate to alternatives such as Cleaner.

A new default method CharSequence.isEmpty() was added in the just-released JDK 15.

I was saddened to hear news of Bill Shannon’s recent passing.

The other day on Twitter I said, “Scanner is a weird beast.

And what we might do about it… Brian Goetz and I gave this presentation in Antwerp, Belgium on November 7, 2019.