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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.

I think most sandals don't have a divider between the big toe and the rest. I think of sandals as any casual, open-toed shoes.

Nah, they're just there

I very much agree that it's related to the recent extreme sexualization of feet

Gen alpha is trying to get everyone to wear socks with sandals

Wow that looks really nice. Going into it I was expecting it to be a crappy procedural language, but it looks like a really nice alternative to SQL

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.

139 down 60 and change to go.

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.