Java Highlights of 2023

2023 is coming to a close and it was quite a year for Java! JDK 21 released with virtual threads and pattern matching basics, there were some amazing conferences, new Java champions, and we achieved some milestones on this channel, too. And it’s the last year, where it was still reasonable for most projects to be on Java 8. Let’s look back at some of Java’s highlights in 2023. ~~~ Chapters ~~~ 0:00 Intro 0:52 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: 2:54 Java Version Adoption JetBrains 2023 Ecosystem Survey: #java_versions 7:07 JVMLS Website: Playlist: 7:59 Community Achievements Duke’s Corner: (everywhere where you find podcasts) Java Champions: Community Contributions: GitHub repo: 10:35 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: Tags: #Java #Java8 #OpenJDK #InsideJava