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The try block in Rust

Author: Nicolas Frankel Original post on Foojay: Read More I wrote previously about libs for error management in Rust. This week, I want to write about the try block, an experimental feature. The limit of the ? operator Please check the above article for a complete refresher on error management in general and the ? operator in particular. In short, …

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JavaPro Shout Out: “From Reactive Streams to Virtual Threads”

Author: Adam Warski Original post on Foojay: Read More Virtual Threads deliver a fast, cheap (in terms of memory & switching speed) threading solution for the JVM. They promise the return of a direct-style, synchronous programming model. But is that enough to challenge the status quo regarding data streaming? Can we have the best of both worlds: the simplicity that …

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Six JDK 24 Features You Should Know About

Author: Simon Ritter Original post on Foojay: Read More Table of Contents Six new features you want to know about JEP 483: Ahead-of-time class loading and linking JEP 485: Stream gatherers JEP 486: Permanently disable the security manager JEP 491: Synchronize virtual threads without pinning JEP 498: Warn Upon Use of memory-access methods in sun.misc.Unsafe JEP 501: Deprecate the 32-bit …

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