"Preview Features: A Look Back and A Look Ahead" with Alex Buckley

03/21/23 • 33 min

Preview Features have been essential to the delivery of Java for the past 5 years, and Java 20 is no exception with second previews of both Virtual Threads and the Foreign Function & Memory API.

Chad discussing the importance of Preview Features with Alex Buckley, as well as an Informational JEP that added some further clarification for Preview Features with large surface areas.

Some show notes:

JDK 20 is out today: https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/20/

JEP 12: Preview Features https://openjdk.org/jeps/12

A look ahead: https://openjdk.org/jeps/8300604

Preview Features have been essential to the delivery of Java for the past 5 years, and Java 20 is no exception with second previews of both Virtual Threads and the Foreign Function & Memory API.

Chad discussing the importance of Preview Features with Alex Buckley, as well as an Informational JEP that added some further clarification for Preview Features with large surface areas.

Some show notes:

JDK 20 is out today: https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/20/

JEP 12: Preview Features https://openjdk.org/jeps/12

A look ahead: https://openjdk.org/jeps/8300604

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