We’ll explore key milestones, including lambdas, records, and more, with code examples, fun historical highlights, and a touch of humour. Whether you're a Java veteran or newcomer, this talk will give you a fresh perspective on Java’s evolution and its future.

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To help celebrate Java’s 30th bday, Jim will take us on a nostalgic journey through 30 years of Java, from its 1995 debut to today’s cutting-edge features.

The use-case is for generating multiple JSON based config files, all with commonality/duplication but specific environment based differences

Awesome, looking forward to reviewing it 🙂

Quote from the book intro..

“Busyness often means just doing so many things at once that they all turn out crappy.”

Yeah, really enjoying it, Oswald is a great character!

Without knowing the details, with his experience in this space he could be interested in being a part of JBake’s successor

This sounds interesting, I know the creator of JBake pretty well as he helps to organise the Manchester JUG with me. I don’t think he’s on here yet but in the spirit of OSS I’m going to speak to him to understand the challenges with JBake in more detail

There is also a Java Champion starter pack go.bsky.app/CfRBzuP

A starter pack which you are now a part of 🙂👍

Sounds good, it would be nice if there was an easy way to do this