Java recap for week 16/2025

From 14/4/2025 to 20/4/2025

Articles #

• Pike – a dynamic programming language with a syntax similar to Java and C 104 comments in 3 discussions

• Introducing JBang Jash 58 comments in 1 discussion

• IntelliJ IDEA 2025.1 Is Out! 46 comments in 1 discussion

• Getting started with SDKMAN! – Manage Java, Maven, Gradle versions with ease 38 comments in 1 discussion

• Scoped Values Final in JDK 25 37 comments in 3 discussions

• The Story Behind K2 Mode and How It Works 33 comments in 2 discussions

• JEP draft: Compact Object Headers (Production) 28 comments in 1 discussion

• Java’s New FMA: Renaissance Or Decay? (Updated) 14 comments in 1 discussion

• New candidate JEP: 507: Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch (Third Preview) 13 comments in 1 discussion

• Now K2 mode is the default in IntelliJ IDEA 12 comments in 1 discussion

• Smarter Kotlin Development with JetBrains AI: Junie and AI Assistant in Your IDE 12 comments in 1 discussion

• Kotlin Notebook Arrives in IntelliJ IDEA 7 comments in 2 discussions

• When Life Gives You Java 5 comments in 1 discussion

• Guiding an LLM for Robust Java ByteBuffer Code 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Handling Deep Links in Compose Multiplatform 🔗

Projects #

• Summon: Type-Safe Kotlin Multiplatform Frontend Framework (Web & JVM) with Compose-like Syntax & Recent Updates! 12 comments in 1 discussion

• I've made a Sudoku solver/generator written in Kotlin 3 comments in 1 discussion

• mcp4k — Compiler-driven MCP framework for Kotlin Multiplatform

• MCS (Mellor-Crummey and Scott) variations

Videos #

• Where is the Java language going? 220 comments in 2 discussions

• Creator of Spring: No desire to write Java – Talking Kotlin #138 [video] 2 comments in 1 discussion

• Microsoft JDConf 2025 - All recordings now available

• Difference & Commonality with Objects & Functions in the Gilded Rose Kata