https://macworks.dev/tags/java/Recent content in Java on MacWorksHugoenhttps://macworks.dev/docs/today/hackernews-2026-06-19/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://macworks.dev/docs/today/hackernews-2026-06-19/<h1 id="hacker-news--2026-06-19">Hacker News — 2026-06-19<a class="anchor" href="#hacker-news--2026-06-19">#</a></h1> <h2 id="top-story">Top Story<a class="anchor" href="#top-story">#</a></h2> <p><strong><a href="https://www.jvm-weekly.com/p/project-valhalla-explained-how-a">Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28</a></strong> After 12 years and five discarded prototypes, Java is finally getting value classes in JDK 28, allowing developers to code like a class but execute with the memory density of a primitive. This is a tectonic shift for the JVM that fundamentally breaks the 1995 assumption that &ldquo;every object has identity,&rdquo; paving the way for flattened memory layouts without sacrificing object-oriented abstractions.</p>