150: Breaching the Summit
Initially tonight’s episode was going to be called “The Patch Is All” (guess whose been enjoying the new season of Killjoys?) — with a discussion about pre code-review practises, however with Peter’s absence, the discussion centred mostly around the 2017 Java Language Summit which was taking place around the recording period. Upcoming Events DevOpsDays Auckland - 3/4th October Pacific C++ - 26/27th October in Christchurch, NZ JVM Topics Java 8u144 Released - release notes - download New Java Style Guideline for OpenJDK ( draft 6 ) - not everyone seems to like it. Not embracing 2 space indents maketh me sad :( Interesting to see how much conflicts with Googles standard, whose structural wrapping rules, whilst clearly delineating structural elements, can be a bit unsightly ) Java Language Summit 2017 Agenda - lots on value types, surprisingly little on modularity Videos already going live Project Sulong - After watching the JLS video - colour me (Mark) highly impressed. Nobody puts Java in the container - Ken Sipe Video, JavaZone Introduction to Java multitenancy - Learn about a new feature for cloud systems in the IBM SDK Java Technology Edition, Version 7 Release 1 Ceylon on Java 9 + Jigsaw Clojure Dependency Heaven(pdf) - introducing tools.deps.alpha edit cough at 18:42 JEP 307: Parallel Full GC for G1 How Compatibility Breeds Complexity - The module system gone awry Java Style Guidelines - Draft v6 Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs The best Java books as voted by Reddit r/java ( reddit thread here ) General Do people write insane code with multiple overlapping side effects with a straight face? Some History of Functional Programming Languages - David Turner (Lambda Days 2017) (youtube video) Miranda language IntelliJ Rust Plugin now officially supported by Jetbrains Autocomplete for macros Minimum version is 2017.1 Rust: The server trick - The semver trick refers to publishing a breaking change to a Rust library without requiring a coordinated upgrade across its downstream dependency graph. The trick is built around having one version of your library declare a dependency on a newer version of the same library ( reddit thread ) Contact Us Google Group Mailing List Google+ Page Facebook Group Twitter