Valhalla? Python? Withers? Lombok? - Ask the Architects at JavaOne'25

Should Java get rid of semicolons and what are the next steps for projects Valhalla and Loom? How does Java hold up against Python and what's the hold-up with record withers? The Java architects Ron Pressler, Paul Sandoz, Brian Goetz, Mark Reinhold, Dan Heidinga, Viktor Klang, Gary Frost, Alex Buckley, and John Rose sat down at #JavaOne 2025 to answer these and many more audience questions in the Ask The Architect session. All    • JavaOne 2025   talks. ~~~~~ Chapters ~~~~~ 0:00 Introductions and T-Shirt Rules 1:47 Getting Rid of Semicolons 2:39 What's Next After Valhalla? 4:58 Lombok Features in Java 6:36 Better GPU Programming 9:39 What's Next for Loom? 11:41 What Decision Would You Change? 16:28 Multiple Returns and Structural Tuples 19:24 Quantum Computing 20:57 Future JDK GCs 22:56 Java vs Python 30:05 Startup-Time Solutions 32:15 How to Include an AOT Cache 35:09 NumPy/SciPy/... Analogues in the JDK 37:47 TinyPointers Hashes 38:53 Unsigned Numerical Types 42:47 Record Withers 46:15 Future Footguns 48:32 Foreign Calls Into Java 49:48 Changes to Visibility 51:26 Outro Tags: #Java #OpenJDK #JDK