Java News Roundup: Java Turns 29, Kotlin 2.0, Semantic Kernel for Java 1.0, More OpenJDK Updates
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On May 23rd, 1995, Java 1.0 was introduced to developers who attended the Sun World '95 conference. A Java community was born and 29 years later, the community has evolved to include 370 global Java User Groups, 370 Java Champions, and many Java-related conferences in a given calendar year. There have been 22 formal releases.
At Devnexus 2024, Sharat Chander, Senior Director, Product Management & Developer Engagement at Oracle, announced that JavaOne will return to celebrate Java's 30th birthday. It will be held March 17-20, 2025 in Redwood Shores, California. Please stay tuned for the call for papers.
This JEP proposes to 'evolve the Java language so that students can write their first programs without needing to understand language features designed for large programs.' This JEP moves forward the September 2022 blog post, Paving the on-ramp, by Brian Goetz, Java Language Architect at Oracle.
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