Java is the New Python
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Projects Panama, Valhalla, and Babylon could make it easier in Java to use different programming and memory models and to interface with foreign programming languages.
Java has had tremendous successes and, in the last few years, has evolved quite significantly. However, it was still difficult to interface with libraries written in other programming languages because of some complexity with JNI and some syntactic and semantic barriers. New projects to improve Java could help alleviate, even nullify, these barriers. Projects Panama, Valhalla, and Babylon exist to make it easier to use different programming and memory models in Java and to interface with foreign programming languages. This presentation describes the problem with the Java “isthmus” and the three projects in detail, with real code examples. It shows how, combined, these three projects could make Java the new Python.
| Source code implementing different examples with the dedicated JDKs 22, 23, and 24 |
