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Discussion on: What's new and interesting in Java?

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Raunak Ramakrishnan • • Edited

Great thread. A few more interesting things which are in the pipeline:

  • Project Loom brings light-weight threads (fibres) to give the JVM the ability to spawn millions of threads like BEAM (Erlang VM) and Go. More info
  • Project Valhalla aim to bring value types in Java. This will potentially reduce the memory consumption of programs.
  • Project Amber brings syntax improvements like pattern matching and data classes which will make Java more expressive and less boilerplate-y!