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James Gosling
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I'm no longer active on Twitter, or even paying attention. I've moved over to Mastodon @[email protected]
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    James Gosling
    @errcraft
    Nov 22, 2022
    I've moved over to Mastodon @[email protected]. Nothing interesting there (yet). It's not like I'm a prolific user of Twitter.
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    James Gosling
    @errcraft
    Apr 6, 2021
    Microsoft: welcome back! You were a great community member in the mid 90's — which later took a sad & weird turn, but I trust you won't go there again.
    Announcing Microsoft Build of OpenJDK - Microsoft for Java Developers
    From devblogs.microsoft.com
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    James Gosling
    @errcraft
    Nov 25, 2021
    JDK17 is a huge leap forward in benchmark after benchmark. Upgrade as fast as you can. Amazon’s Corretto builds are available for a huge number of platforms and distribution channels. The JRE disappeared with jdk9: use jlink to assemble exactly the JRE you need
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    Bruno Borges
    @brunoborges
    Nov 24, 2021
    JVM with <5ms GC pauses (ZGC) is quite something. Great article by @kstefanj. Read here: kstefanj.github.io/2021/11/24/gc-…
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    James Gosling
    @errcraft
    Nov 14, 2018
    Just announced #amazon #Corretto at #devoxx. It is our distribution of OpenJDK.
    aws.amazon.com
    OpenJDK Download - Corretto - AWS
    Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK). Corretto comes with no-cost long-term support. Amazon runs Corretto internally...
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    James Gosling
    @errcraft
    May 9, 2021
    Not only is Bitcoin an ecological disaster, it’s a hustle, a ponzi scheme, a gift to criminals, and just stupid. There are so many useful ways to spend energy.
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    koush
    @koush
    Apr 15, 2021
    Difficult to quantify what an ecological disaster Bitcoin is, but this comes close.
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    James Gosling
    @errcraft
    May 24, 2020
    The 25th anniversary of Java has been mostly fun conversations with old friends. Besides, it's really more like the 28th anniversary. imgs.xkcd.com/comics/x.png
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    James Gosling
    @errcraft
    Apr 19, 2022
    For those of you still stuck on JDK8, there's a new Corretto release with all the latest updates and CVE defenses. But please, get off JDK8 as fast as you can. JDK17 LTS is a huge leap in every dimension.
    Release 8.332.08.1 · corretto/corretto-8
    From github.com
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    James Gosling
    @errcraft
    Feb 2, 2019
    Amazon Corretto 8, the supported build of OpenJDK 8 that we released in preview last fall, is now Generally Available: ready for production! It's in production underneath Amazon's services, so it's quite rugged. Coming very soon: Corretto 11!
    Amazon Corretto 8 Now Generally Available | Amazon Web Services
    From aws.amazon.com
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    James Gosling
    @errcraft
    Jun 3, 2021
    I’ll bet most Java programmers don’t know that there’s a tiny hole in the floating point spec, put there because Intel had a couple of issues with their floating point instructions 25 years ago. It’s been moot for a long time. Goodbye strictfp
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    OpenJDK
    @OpenJDK
    Jun 1, 2021
    Targeted to JDK 17: JEP 306: Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics: openjdk.java.net/jeps/306 #jdk17 #openjdk #java
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    James Gosling
    @errcraft
    Sep 22, 2021
    Amazon has been putting a lot of effort into Java. One of the central themes for us has been the reduction of latency. A little while ago a couple of our folks gave an interesting (and ultra geeky) talk on that journey.
    Amazon Corretto, A Journey into Latency Reduction
    From youtube.com
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    James Gosling
    @errcraft
    May 21, 2020
    I'm glad you've had a great experience! I'm looking forward to more of your OpenJDK contributions.
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    Engineering
    X
    @Engineering
    May 21, 2020
    Happy 25th birthday to @java! Did you know that almost all of Twitter's services run on the Java Virtual Machine? That @TwitterEng develops it's own fork of @OpenJDK with Twitter-specific optimizations to make Java and Scala faster? #MovedByJava
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    James Gosling
    @errcraft
    Dec 28, 2018
    Apache NetBeans 10.0 finally got released! I’ve been using the early builds for months. My favorite feature is it’s support for JDK11, and particularly its ability to find places where your code can use new JDK features and do the appropriate edits. magic! netbeans.apache.org/download/nb100…
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    James Gosling
    @errcraft
    Apr 5, 2021
    Sanity has prevailed: the Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle’s API copyright case. It's astonishing that this case even got started, much less that it ground on for more than a decade. theverge.com/2021/4/5/22367… via @verge
    Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle’s API copyright case
    From theverge.com
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    James Gosling
    @errcraft
    Nov 29, 2021
    Once again, at reInvent. I was expecting it to be sedate this year, but no. The place is buzzing!