Java 10 Released

The New Java is Here

RIP The Most Anticipated JDK 9

Today, Oracle Released the Newest Java, the JDK 10.This is a mark to the new Java era. Java is going to give very tight competition to the new generation languages Scala, Python etc.

A detailed video review of the new Java 10 features is coming soon.

JDK 10 - Features

Java 10 apart from being a performance and stability release compared with Java 9, it also offers great enhancements to the existing language. Java says the overall goal of this release is to ensure that all the absolutely critical bugs are solved which are critical to the release. The Major Features are :

The Local Variable Type Reference

- Enhances the Java Language to extend type inference to declaration of local variables with initializers.

JDK forest consolidated to single repository

- In order to simplify and streamline development.

Garbage Collector Interface

- Improving source code isolation of different garbage collectors.

Parallel Full GC for G1

- For improving the worst case latencies.

Improvements in Jshell

- Shorter start time

Application Class Data Sharing

- Improving the start up and footprint