News Grab Bag: Loom Virtual Threads, Lilliput, Pattern Matching, ... - Inside Java Newscast #25

Project Loom’s virtual threads are merged and ship with JDK 19 - here’s to prepare for them. Also, news on Project Lilliput, proposal for record patterns in pattern matching, some astonishing numbers from Sonatype on Maven Central, and the move of OpenJDK to . Here are the virtual thread experiments I promised: * Elliot’s 5 million persistent connections: * Elliot’s comparison of platform vs virtual threads vs async: * James Baker’s experiments with Jepsen and Foundation DB: * Helidon on Loom: * my lab with some simple code snippets: