Have you worked with GraalVM yet? It’s a high-performance runtime built on Java SE that includes an optimizing compiler as well as Native Image, a utility that compiles Java bytecode ahead of time to generate self-contained executables. In his new article, Oleg Šelajev, a member of the GraalVM team, takes you deep into the platform to see how it works—and when to use it.
And what about GitHub? Ian Darwin, one of the founding Java Champions, explores Project Skara and the JEPs that powered the migration of OpenJDK from Mercurial to Git and GitHub. There’s history, there’s content, and there’s a tutorial on how to build your own JDK.
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