Java, Today and Tomorrow by Mark Reinhold

What’s new in Java today, and what’s coming to Java tomorrow? We’ll start with a review some of the recent additions to the language and the platform. We’ll then look ahead and demonstrate some of the features currently in development in the Amber, Loom, Panama, and Valhalla projects. All of these features will continue to improve both developer productivity and program performance while retaining Java’s core values of readability, generality, and compatibility.

[cafeliu]

Nice to be able to pick these up in one video.

[blenderpanzi]

How do fibers handle blocking IO calls? Does that mean that all IO calls now have extra code, checking if they are called from a fiber and doing different stuff in that case? Adding overhead for when it is not called from a fiber?
And I assume one can also declare enums as value types?

[krokenstiv]

why not remove 'new' keyword?

[MoosesValley]

The Big Goals of Java what about "Write Once, Run Anywhere" ???? This was always the BIG goal of Java - number #1 above all else. It the early days, many devs were laughing at how slow Java was, and Sun and pro-Java people always countered with "but it is Write Once, Run Anywhere". It was the main selling point for learning Java. Is the "Write Once, Run Anywhere" dream dead ?

[GrantSR]

There are more tactful ways to ask people to stop talking during your lecture. I stopped watching after that.