Any highlights? I haven’t watched any yet but I’ve learned a lot from Venkat Subramaniam’s prior presentations

It will only help the earliest of beginners. If java 1.1 included this i would understand, but at this point I don’t see it

They all require the template processor to be specified, but I’m likely to convert hundreds or thousands of lines of existing string concatenation to templates in one of my projects and I really appreciate that the only \{ that show up will be the ones I create.

Java 11 allows you to paste in JavaScript and it largely just works

Var is not Javascript. It’s not even type inference. It just reduces redundancy in the boilerplate.

The module changes are a PITA, but not increasingly difficult. There aren’t really other big backwards incompatible changes

The actual backend improvements keep being pushed

What changes are you referring to?

Can’t watch the video right now but it makes a ton of sense that java would be having a resurgence. Pre-java 8 it felt like the every day I ran into problems it would be easier to solve in other languages. I’m still mostly on 8 and it feels pretty modern still. I’m super excited to move to 17 and 21 for all the new features, though.

if you’re allowed to take downtime, you can do it all in one step without worrying about mixed-version environments.

You don’t need to wiry about mixed version environments but you need to worry about whether you can roll back your changes without loss of data. It’s not as hard but it seems to get overlooked if there haven’t been any bad deployments lately.