From the link/mailing list announcement:<p>“JDK 23, the reference implementation of Java 23, is now Generally
Available. We shipped build 37 as the second Release Candidate of
JDK 23 on 21 August, and no P1 bugs have been reported since then.
Build 37 is therefore now the GA build, ready for production use.<p>GPL-licensed OpenJDK builds from Oracle are available here:<p><pre><code> https://jdk.java.net/23
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Builds from other vendors will no doubt be available soon.<p>This release includes twelve JEPs [1], including the switch of ZGC’s
default mode to the generational mode (474):<p><pre><code> 455: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Preview)
466: Class-File API (Second Preview)
467: Markdown Documentation Comments
469: Vector API (Eighth Incubator)
473: Stream Gatherers (Second Preview)
471: Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal
474: ZGC: Generational Mode by Default
476: Module Import Declarations (Preview)
477: Implicitly Declared Classes and Instance Main Methods (Third Preview)
480: Structured Concurrency (Third Preview)
481: Scoped Values (Third Preview)
482: Flexible Constructor Bodies (Second Preview)
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This release also includes, as usual, hundreds of smaller enhancements
and thousands of bug fixes.<p>Thank you to everyone who contributed this release, whether by designing
and implementing features or enhancements, by fixing bugs, or by
downloading and testing the early-access builds!<p>- Mark<p>[1] <a href="https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/2/“" rel="nofollow">https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/2/“</a>
I need someone to sell me on Java. I might need to learn it soon for a project but it never before occurred to me that it is something I should use.<p>I came up in coding in the early 00's. To me Java was that slow, buggy, sometimes dangerous browser plug-in that I think most people loathed?<p>On Mac OS X at least Java desktop apps were always slow, ugly, and broke the platform UI conventions.<p>Then Java was that language Google used for Android and then ended up in a long, expensive lawsuit over it with Java's owner Oracle.<p>It is cross-platform as a big selling point but then people use it to write monolithic server applications where cross-platform capability isn't useful.<p>It seems to be kinda, sorta open source but don't fuck up with the licenses or Larry's lawyers will come for you. I'd rather just use a fully open language where the community can guide its progress.<p>I am sincerely not trying to start a flame war or be condenscending. I would like to expand my thinking and understand what I am missing out on.
I feel for the enterprise Java devs. Doesn’t matter how good the language becomes and what shiny new features it gets, they are forever tied to a version 20 years out of date. Working with a client right now with dozens to close to a hundred Java 8 apps still being maintained.