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What the heck is Project Loom and what can a normal Java developer expect from it? by Deepu K Sasidh
Learn about Project Loom, a game-changing feature in Java 19, and discover how Virtual Threads revolutionize concurrency management, simplifying code and execution while providing reactive programming and Golang-style concurrency power.
- Project Loom is a feature in Java 19, providing a new way to manage concurrency: Virtual Threads, replacing need for thread pooling.
- Virtual Threads are lightweight and managed by the JVM, making it easy to adopt and migrate.
- No need to worry about thread resource consumption, allowing creation of millions of virtual threads.
- Structured task scope is another feature, ensuring confinement of task lifetime to lexical scope.
- Concert and simplicity of Virtual Threads resemble Go language.
- Some limitations and issues, such as debugging, may arise.
- Virtual Threads are suitable for parallel processing, relieving need for focus on concurrency.
- Golang-style concurrency simplicity and power are introduced to Java.
- No need for thread recycling or marking threads as idle.
- Much simpler code and faster execution.
- Node.js and reactive programming alternatives to platform threads.
- Expects to see Virtual Threads used in common use-cases.