Panama Update with Maurizio Cimadamore

Project Panama re-imagines the way in which Java applications speak to
foreign functions and data structures. In Panama, developers generate
suitable Java interfaces from existing native headers using a tool
called 'jextract'; such interfaces can then be bound to the
corresponding native methods and data structures on the fly, with no
need for writing platform-specific code in C or C++. Allowing
platform-specific idioms to be coded directly in Java not only improves
developers productivity, but it also makes the platform more secure and
efficient. This talk takes a peek under the hood of the composable architecture of the Panama foreign
support with particular focus on the challenges of providing a foreign
interoperability support which is as expressive as is efficient.