Java Next - from Amber to Loom, from Panama to Valhalla

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Roadmap overview with specific features and timings: templated strings with pluggable policies that can parse directly to SQL or JSON (preventing injection) and are drafted for JEP work; Project Panama previews foreign memory and function APIs in JDK 19 plus a vector API for 512-bit SIMD (already in multiple previews, useful for 16x numeric speedups); Valhalla adds value and primitive classes with universal and specialized generics to eliminate identity and allow primitive-backed collections; Loom delivers virtual threads on carrier threads (can spawn millions, raising throughput though not single-request latency). Finalization spans several upcoming releases.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Java projects
2. 1:40Project Amber
3. 10:41Project Panama
4. 19:19Project Valhalla
5. 32:48General updates and migration
6. 39:22Project Loom

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