With 2025 coming to a close, let’s summarize Java’s year and look at the current state of the six big OpenJDK projects as well as a few other highlights: Project Babylon is still pretty young and hasn’t shipped a feature or even drafted a JEP yet. Leyden, not much older, has already shipped a bunch of startup and warmup time improvements, though. Amber is currently taking a breather between its phases 1 and 2 and just like projects Panama and Loom only has a single, mature feature in the fire. And then there’s Project Valhalla…

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