GC progress from JDK 8 to JDK 17

Re:GC progress from JDK 8 to JDK 17 by kaba0 on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @01:50PM (#29333623)

Lol, you are laughably bad to think that java is legacy.

The JVM is improving with never before seen speed, has state of the art GCs, a very good JIT compiler, upcoming green threads that will make blocking code automagically unblocking and once Valhalla hits with value types, there really will be very few areas where java would not be applicable.

And on top of that, there is also Graal, which is a novel way to run and optimize mixed-language code bases.

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Re:GC progress from JDK 8 to JDK 17 by justbaker on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @09:35PM (#29337670)

>Lol, you are laughably bad to think that java is legacy.

Seriously. It might not be one of the hip new languages with unique features but it’s a very mature language that is well battle tested, has plenty of libraries available, and the talent pool is very deep for Java hires. It’s also something that stands the test of time —- write code in 1999 on an old Java version it will still likely run on that version today.

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