Java Highlights of 2023 Inside Java Newscast #60

2023 is coming to a close, and it was quite a year for Java! JDK 21 shipped with virtual threads and pattern matching basics; there were a number of amazing conferences, new Java champions, and we achieved a few milestones on this channel, too. Also, this was the last year when it was still reasonable for most projects to be on Java 8. Let's look back at some of Java's highlights in 2023.

Show Notes

More on-ramp sections:

• Brian Goetz in "Paving the on-ramp"

• my video on simplified main

• Java Playground

• Oracle VS Code extension

• Ana's video on it

Java version adoption:

• JetBrains 2023 Ecosystem Survey

JVMLS:

• website

• playlist

Community achievements:

• Duke's Corner (everywhere where you find podcasts)

• Java Champions

• dev.java Community Contributions

• dev.java GitHub repo

Gloating about this channel:

• "Java 21 is no LTS Version"

• Cracking the Java Coding Interview

• Sips of Java

• Favorite StackWalker

• Road to 21

• Java 21 launch stream

Additional Resources

• dev.java: the destination for Java developers

• OpenJDK: the place to collaborate on the Java Platform and related projects

• Oracle Java: the #1 programming language and development platform

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