JDK 28

ejboy 95 points 39 comments October 17, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)

amelius

I'm not a Java person, but I'm curious how fast it is nowadays, and also the startup time. Can it be used to write shell commands with, for example?

MrBuddyCasino

JEP 540: Simple JSON API > trailing commas and comments are not supported Be strict in what you produce, be lenient in what you accept. Grr.

jmarlow47

It's really refreshing to see the pace of Java development pick up so much over the past few years. The last few years of server-side has been on Kotlin for me, however, modern Java is looking more and more like anything I'd need in a language.

alfiedotwtf

I couldn’t find it in the docs, but does the OpenJDK contain Java’s GUI? It would be cool to write the backend in whatever language you want and then have an ACTUAL library that works on all platforms that also looks like the system GUI

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