what-the-heck-is-project-loom-for-java

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what-the-heck-is-project-loom-for-java

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Originally posted by Mihai on September 8, 2022 in Foojay.io Discussions.

I disagree with:
“it should not affect regular Java developers much, as these developers may be using libraries for concurrency use cases.”

Currently many developers choose Spring WebFlux with complicated callbacks in Project Reactor. Almost impossible to debug.
Also not only for web application. I needed to implement a very fast server that consume from a queue and send messages to customers. The same, using Project Reactor and Netty connections and AWS async connections.

Project Loom will bring back the synchronous simple model of programming for most web applications.

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Originally posted by Deepu K Sasidharan on September 8, 2022 in Foojay.io Discussions.

@mihai you are absolutely right. Synchronous code is the most intuitive and if the throughput is same or more its absolutely worth switching to virtual threads. I guess my statement was an oversimplification. I did add the disclaimer regarding my statement as I still believe for most regular developers the framework they use will make the decision for them. Ofcourse most regular developers is not a quantified number I believe

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Originally posted by Daniel on September 9, 2022 in Foojay.io Discussions.

@mihai, what about Kotlin coroutines?