JavaOne 2025 Day 1: Our World, Moved by Java
Briefly

The Day One of JavaOne 2025 marked the release of JDK 24, featuring a keynote by Chad Arimura highlighting Java's journey and continuous improvement. Scott McNealy recounted his pivotal role in retaining James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, emphasizing Java's evolution and current importance in the developer community. The event also identified 11 developer pain points and potential solutions, reinforcing Oracle's commitment to balancing innovation with conservation of Java's core principles.
Java is simple, object-oriented, distributed, interpreted, robust, secure, architecture neutral, portable, high performance, multithreaded dynamic language.
Scott McNealy provided an additional, sometimes humorous, retrospective on the state of software companies 30 years ago and how Sun interacted with them.
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