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

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Roadmap-level brief: Amber lands small language features now — JEP 430 string templates slated as a JDK 21 preview, plus pattern matching, records and sealed types to reduce boilerplate; Panama modernizes native interop with the Vector API SIMD for reliable auto-vectorization, a Foreign Memory API and Jextract-backed Foreign Function API; Valhalla introduces value classes and specialized generics (flattening and nullability markers still unsettled); Loom provides virtual threads and structured concurrency that make millions of waiting threads cheap and simplify high‑throughput I/O.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:23Motivation
3. 2:21Pattern Matching
4. 10:39Amber Endeavors
5. 20:13Foreign-Function API
6. 30:50Nullness Markers
7. 32:53Universal Generics
8. 44:55Virtual Thread Management

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