Meet bld. New build system for Java, in Java. The goal is to be simple, predictable and understandable, without any magic funky business.

#build #java #tool

On potential memory leak caused by double brace initialization (something along the lines of new HashMap<>() {{ ... }}) in Java. I believe I had to fix several such leaks in our app long time ago.

#java #memory #leak

A short post comparing io and nio in Java.

#java #io #nio

My man is breaking java.lang.String. To make a String not .equals to itself and stuff like that. Amazing! Just imagine maliciously adding code breaking e.g. interned "id" to some popular lib.

#java #string

My man has implemented a toy JVM in Rust. Here you'll find a series of posts with details on .class files, bytecode and other aspects of his rjvm thingy.

#java #jvm #rust

We saw a toy JVM in Rust recently. Here's a bit more serious and ambitious project - JVM in Go. This post is about method discovery. Also try this page if you decide to dive deeper.

#jvm #go #java

Can't even add anything here, the title pretty much speaks for itself: A one-sentence summary of each new JEP from JDK 21

#java #jdk