☕ Java 20: Ruy López Sequence Is About To Be Executed
6 min readMar 26, 2023
With the 20 release, Oracle continues it’s massive Ruy López sequence destined to place Java as the go-to language of the AI-age.
Oracle released Java 20 several days ago. Let’s look what are the most aspects of this release.
Java 19 Rehearsal
Java 20 comes after a game changing Java 19 release made in September. My article about Java 19 got a whooping number of 1100 claps. It got also some interesting comments, I like the one from Kamil Jed the most:
It came with a progress most importantly in these three areas:
- Structured task scopes for concurrency
- Simplified conditional record casting for faster type checking and casting
- Virtual threads for reducing resource utilization by thread intense systems like servers
Among other movements like fourth incubation of vector API.