The wait is over! Java 19 ships today and is full of nice surprises. 2022 has been great so far - first Go brought us generics, now Java is striving to become a contender to Go in the concurrency space. Virtual threads (or as I call them, Java’s goroutines) are not going to change the game overnight, but will inevitably become the dominant concurrency solution in the years to come.
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