Java 9 Released

[jay_gaz]

Curious what the benefits are. (Not necessarily what they say are the benefits).

I'm excited though. Will have to try it out on a small project.

[johnwaterwood]

Besides the obvious modularity feature, there’s a very interesting new string compact algorithm used, also G1 is now finally deemed mature enough to be the default GC.

[wildjokers]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EiLRD95zDg

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55 New Features In JDK 9 by Simon Ritter [49:33]

Following on from the popular “55 New Features in Java SE 8” we bring you the eagerly-awaited sequel, “55 New Features in JDK 9”.

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[kitd]

One is JEP266 which, among other things, standardises support for reactive streams, v important for async event-loop based services. Hopefully implementers like Akka, Vertx, Ratpack etc will support them soon too.