Episode 15 “Java 16 is Here!” with Mikael Vidstedt

The release of Java 16 was a good reason to invite Mikael Vidstedt (Director of JVM Engineering) again to the show. In this episode, Chad and Mikael discuss some of the new JDK 16 features, the 6 months release cadence but also how some Valhalla initial bits are starting to gradually appear into the platform, and more!

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Resources

• JDK 16 features

• JEP 396: Strongly Encapsulate JDK Internals by Default

• Records

  • JEP 395: Records

  • “Records” (podcast)

  • “Records Serialization” (podcast)

• Packaging Tool

  • JEP 392: Packaging Tool

  • “jpackage” (podcast)

• Project Panama

  • JEP 338: Vector API (Incubator)

  • “The Vector API” (podcast)

  • JEP 393: Foreign-Memory Access API (3rd Incubator)

  • “The Foreign Memory Access API” (podcast)

  • JEP 389: Foreign Linker API (Incubator)

  • “The Foreign Linker API” (podcast)

• JEP 390: Warnings for Value-Based Classes

• ZGC

  • JEP 376: ZGC: Concurrent Thread-Stack Processing

  • “The Z Garbage Collector (ZGC)” (podcast)

• “JDK Flight Recorder” (podcast)

• JEP 386: Alpine Linux Port

Additional resources

• OpenJDK

• Oracle Java