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I've moved over to Mastodon @[email protected]. Nothing interesting there (yet). It's not like I'm a prolific user of Twitter.
James Gosling
204 posts
James Gosling
@errcraft
I'm no longer active on Twitter, or even paying attention. I've moved over to Mastodon @[email protected]
Joined October 2009
- Microsoft: welcome back! You were a great community member in the mid 90's — which later took a sad & weird turn, but I trust you won't go there again.
- JDK17 is a huge leap forward in benchmark after benchmark. Upgrade as fast as you can. Amazon’s Corretto builds are available for a huge number of platforms and distribution channels. The JRE disappeared with jdk9: use jlink to assemble exactly the JRE you needJVM with <5ms GC pauses (ZGC) is quite something. Great article by @kstefanj. Read here: kstefanj.github.io/2021/11/24/gc-…
- Not only is Bitcoin an ecological disaster, it’s a hustle, a ponzi scheme, a gift to criminals, and just stupid. There are so many useful ways to spend energy.Difficult to quantify what an ecological disaster Bitcoin is, but this comes close.
- The 25th anniversary of Java has been mostly fun conversations with old friends. Besides, it's really more like the 28th anniversary. imgs.xkcd.com/comics/x.png
- For those of you still stuck on JDK8, there's a new Corretto release with all the latest updates and CVE defenses. But please, get off JDK8 as fast as you can. JDK17 LTS is a huge leap in every dimension.
- Amazon Corretto 8, the supported build of OpenJDK 8 that we released in preview last fall, is now Generally Available: ready for production! It's in production underneath Amazon's services, so it's quite rugged. Coming very soon: Corretto 11!
- I’ll bet most Java programmers don’t know that there’s a tiny hole in the floating point spec, put there because Intel had a couple of issues with their floating point instructions 25 years ago. It’s been moot for a long time. Goodbye strictfpTargeted to JDK 17: JEP 306: Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics: openjdk.java.net/jeps/306 #jdk17 #openjdk #java
- Amazon has been putting a lot of effort into Java. One of the central themes for us has been the reduction of latency. A little while ago a couple of our folks gave an interesting (and ultra geeky) talk on that journey.
- I'm glad you've had a great experience! I'm looking forward to more of your OpenJDK contributions.Happy 25th birthday to @java! Did you know that almost all of Twitter's services run on the Java Virtual Machine? That @TwitterEng develops it's own fork of @OpenJDK with Twitter-specific optimizations to make Java and Scala faster? #MovedByJava
- Apache NetBeans 10.0 finally got released! I’ve been using the early builds for months. My favorite feature is it’s support for JDK11, and particularly its ability to find places where your code can use new JDK features and do the appropriate edits. magic! netbeans.apache.org/download/nb100…
- Sanity has prevailed: the Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle’s API copyright case. It's astonishing that this case even got started, much less that it ground on for more than a decade. theverge.com/2021/4/5/22367… via @verge
- Once again, at reInvent. I was expecting it to be sedate this year, but no. The place is buzzing!
