Illegal Argument Mark Derricutt, Greg Amer and Richard Vowles

Last week, Greg and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Andres Almiray from Oracle to discuss this week's release of Java 22. I was hoping to get this episode out sooner but ended up fighting it out with a fever.
Alert Notification https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/java-on-macos-14-4 Java 22 Released Tomorrow JDK 22 Release Notes: https://jdk.java.net/22/release-notes JavaFX Release Notes: https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/blob/master/doc-files/release-notes-22.md Does Java 22 Kill Build Tools? https://inside.java/202,4/02/15/newscast-63/ Update on String Templates (JEP 459) (most likely to preview in 23) https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/amber-spec-experts/2024-March/004010.html — First preview feature to be unshipped and reworked entirely? Misc Apache Maven 4.0.0-alpha-13 released — This is the first release that requires Java 17! Welcome to Claro! — The Claro Programming Language https://docs.clarolang.com/chapter_1.html Introducing the Daggerverse - Dagger Devin AI Website — The First AI Software Engineer Cognition Free OracleDb 23c Release Oracle Database Free — https://www.oracle.com/database/free/ Oracle Database Free Container / Docker images — https://github.com/gvenzl/oci-oracle-free Oracle NoSQL Database — https://www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql/ JSON in Oracle Database Office Hours: Binary JSON formats https://apexadb.oracle.com/ords/r/tech/catalog/session-landing-page?p2_event_id=15268317198142239082325102977690035505&debug=LEVEL7&session=213101861572582

It's been a long time (again) between recording/discussions, but finally, for the end of the year, we locked some time to record.
Java 9 Outdated Ideas About Java - Azul | Better Java Performance, Superior Java Support Hidden gems in Java 19, Part 1: The not-so-hidden JEPs JDK 20: The new features in Java 20 | InfoWorld JDK 21: The new features in Java 21 | InfoWorld Java 21 to drop generational Shenandoah GC Why Your Choice of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Matters More Than Ever - Azul | Better Java Performance, Superior Java Support JDK 22: The new features in Java 22 | InfoWorld The Java Playground - Dev.java JEP draft: Null-Restricted Value Class Types (Preview) JEP draft: No longer require super() and this() to appear first in a constructor Minborg's Java Pot: Java 20: Colossal Sparse Memory Segments Golang What’s New in Go 1.21 a Comprehensive Notes | by Younis Jad | Lyonas | Medium Go 1.20 Release Notes - The Go Programming Language [Go 1.21 Release Notes - The Go Programming Language](https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.21 Go 1.22 Release Notes - The Go Programming Language (soon to be released) Misc GitHub - MichaelMure/git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git, with bridges So you want to write a package manager | by sam boyer | Medium Versioning non-project repositories (config, pipelines) Semverbot looks good, but I found a bug: blang/semver only supports "v" prefix's · Issue #58 · restechnica/semverbot · GitHub DORA - Use Four Keys metrics like change failure rate to measure your DevOps performance | Google Cloud Blog Software Design and Maintainability On bad advice Why DevOps is failing: It's Not You, It's The Tools - GigaOm An architect’s journal -Embracing Simplicity in Software Architecture Diagramming | by Asanka Abeysinghe | architect2architect Building Great Teams dagger.io | Replacing your Dockerfile with Go code Replace a Dockerfile with Go | Dagger Dagger Java SDK examples: sample Healing The Poisoned Repository | Theory In Practice

Non-tech Music Banter An Updated Look At Concert Merchandise Sales & Trends in 2022 Why Venues Take Merch Cuts The Taylor Swift Economy: The largest music tour in history is a hospitality phenomenon A litany of languages and their passing, software archaeology and the issues of adopting new languages? Clojure - (next Rich) JDK 21 to be released next month: JDK 21 Release Candidates & JVM Language Summit has a good overview. JEP 430: String Templates (Preview) Not a fan of the syntax, but also appreciate it's not just "string interpolation", it makes it very clear you're doing something different. I like that it's easily expandable and not too different from other languages that use r"Raw String here". NOTE: String Template Processing is runtime, not compile time, as Mark was thinking, as with being able to work well with Freemarker templates – which may work, but not as I implied. JEP 431: Sequenced Collections look like a nice improvement for consistency – annoying for library writers who may find it more useful, tho. Mark: 440: Record Patterns and 441: Pattern Matching for switch – having used these a bit now I love them, in places they fit – they work well for Algebraic Data Type style things, but should be used in moderation tho. JEP 443: Unnamed Patterns and Variables (Preview) It's a small win, but not having to name things “ignore” or “expected” etc. JEP 445: Unnamed Classes and Instance Main Methods (Preview) Initially didn't think I'd find much interest in this, but the more I experiment with Dagger.IO pipelines, and with the forthcoming Java SDK I can see this being enjoyable. JBang as an alternative JEP draft: Prepare to Restrict The Use of JNI - JDK 22 to start warning on JNI usage…  The Reddit thread is well - as you expect :) JEP draft: Prepare to Restrict The Use of JNI (Updated): r/java Flame threads on the JNI command flag option. Quick Fire Last Minute things: Dagger, a ❤️  story | Flipt Blog Tutorial · arxanas/git-branchless Wiki · GitHub BONUS Material Apache Wicket PatternFly Elements - PatternFly Elements

Episode 175 - 18 And Life Until last week, I was going to open the show saying it's been a long time since we last recorded, but we slipped in an interview with the guys from plz.review - so that's not exactly true anymore. It has, however, still been a while since we've had a normal, full session of discussion and argument.
Delayed: The publishing/editing of this episode was unfortunately delayed due to me finally catching Covid.
plz.review Updates Github "integration" is available, we even had GerritForge - Home page listed in the show notes, as part of GerritForge there's GerritHub for online hosted Gerrit+GitHub integration which uses Gerrit's replication plugin, and a Github integration for authentication/authorization. Patch sets and comments remain in Gerrit. JDK Related Since the last main episode, Java 18 was released (and earlier this week JDK 18.0.2 was released with various security and docker improvements.)
Java 19 is currently in Rampdown Phase Two with a GA release slated for 2022/09/20 405: Record Patterns (Preview) 422: Linux/RISC-V Port 424: Foreign Function & Memory API (Preview) 425: Virtual Threads (Preview) 426: Vector API (Fourth Incubator) 427: Pattern Matching for switch (Third Preview) 428: Structured Concurrency (Incubator) Rust 1.63: Scoped Threads : rust. Similar to the forthcoming Structured Concurrency for Java. Deprecating java.util.Date, java.util.Calendar and java.text.DateFormat and their subclasses - Interestingly no replies to that post at all. Value type companions, encapsulated Project Leyden: Beginnings (r/java discussion) Testing clean cleaner cleanup – Inside.java - Replacing finalizers with Cleaners. Tooling SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Adoptium - SD Times IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2 Goes Beta  | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog - Switches from running with Jetbrains' JDK11 to JDK17 IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2 Is Out! | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains Java / JVM Hibernate ORM 6.0 Delivers Improved Performance Languages Kotlin/Native vs. C++ vs. Freepascal vs. Python: A Comparison | by Alex Maryin | Apr, 2022 | Better Programming Kotlin 1.7.0 Released | The Kotlin Blog Scala 3.1.3 released! | The Scala Programming Language Build Bazel Announcing Bazel & JetBrains co-maintenance of IntelliJ IDEA Bazel Plugin - Bazel Bazel Community Update - 5/16/22 - YouTube Manage external dependencies with Bzlmod  |  Bazel Apache Maven Wrapper – Maven Wrapper Alternate Languages Celebrating 50 Years of Smalltalk | by Richard Kenneth Eng | Jul, 2022 | ITNEXT Help Microsoft shape the Azure SDK for Rust Shaving 40% Off Google’s B-Tree Implementation with Go Generics - ScyllaDB Zaplib post-mortem - Zaplib docs - Post-mortem of porting JS to Rust/WASM Simplifying Go Concurrency with Futures Common Lisp - Repl Style. Dev visually with CLOG Builder : Common_Lisp OCaml 5 and new Website 1.5. Summary — OCaml Programming: Correct + Efficient + Beautiful - new OCaml site launched Ocaml 5 concurrency tutorial - concurrent OCaml is finally here (almost) GitHub - ocaml-multicore/eio: Effects-based direct-style IO for multicore OCaml Will OCaml 5+ multicore be fragile? - #17 by gasche - Learning - OCaml C++ C++ 23 to introduce module support | InfoWorld GitHub - carbon-language/carbon-lang: Carbon language specification and documentation. - An experimental successor to C++ Looks like it's getting a lot of flack on Twitter - Twitter: Carbon C++ Results Security Reflections on Log4J Security Issues Weeks after breach, the Heroku GitHub connections remains on ice Misc Major Version Numbers are Not Sacred Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 is a W3C Recommendation | W3C News Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 An open-source tool to seed your dev database with real data : golang How Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in one stroke | Ars Technica Complexity is killing software deve

Reddit Post: Improving on the GitHub code review comment experience : programming Blog Post: Bit Complete Blog: Improving on the GitHub code review comment experience | Bit Complete Inc. YouTube Introduction Video: Introduction to plz.review - YouTube Website: plz.review Guests: Dylan Trotter, Matt Schweitz
It's been a while since recording, and as it happens, just before organizing the next episode, full of “discussion” on the recent Java 18, and forth-coming Java 19 release, I came across an r/programming post from Dylan Trotter from Bit Complete about their new stacked code review tool for Github.
After reading the post, linked blog post, and introductory YouTube video, I reached out to discuss the product, the problems with Github's default PR model, and code review in general.
Contents 00:00:03.754 Introduction 00:01:07.236 Bit Complete History 00:02:24.492 What Makes A Good Code Review? 00:12:32.219 DORA (not the Explorer) 00:14:38.308 Bisecting Squashed Commits 00:18:51.617 The plz.review Solution 00:19:08.934 plz.review Stacks - Grouping PRs Together 00:21:36.969 plz.review Revisions: Force push solutions 00:25:37.590 plz.review Migration - Moving from Gerrit? 00:29:34.371 Gerrit and Github Integration 00:32:23.516 Compromising your workflow to fit Github PRs 00:39:41.700 Code Review as Mentorship / Education 00:41:26.759 Github: Social Coding brought code-review to mainstream 00:45:52.124 Long Lived Support Branches 00:50:03.479 How to signup for plx.review Overview Before we get into plz specifics - I assume both Dylan and Matt have some interesting takes on what makes a good review:
What makes a good review? What constitutes good review "hygiene"? Mark: IMHO A review/commit/PR should ideally do one thing. What the "thing" may be intangible, but ideally: If you're going to reformat code, keep it in a commit separate from business logic changes. If you're updating dependencies, keep them separate from business logic changes, however do include code changes to ensure the build continues to build and pass tests. If a dependency update introduces breaking API changes, keep that dependency change along with the implementation for it. Laurence Tratt: Programming Style Influences Practical guide to DORA metrics | Swarmia DevOps Research and Assessment - The four DORA metrics are: Deployment frequency: How often a software team pushes changes to production Change lead time: The time it takes to get committed code to run in production Change failure rate: The share of incidents, rollbacks, and failures out of all deployments Time to restore service: The time it takes to restore service in production after an incident The first three metrics I can see being highly impacted by small changes, automated testing and CI integration. These all intersect with code reviews – having visibility that a proposed change actually compiles, passes tests, and doesn't introduce any new security issues before a co-worker even looks at the change speeds up the process. Stacked code reviews promote keeping pull requests small | Swarmia changes (with small being a subjective size), We've spoken on code formatters before on the show, keeping consistency for reviews is a good thing regardless of being automated or not. plz.review The project/platform appears to solve several issues we're facing with Gerrit, and our adoption of Azure Devops:
Azure Devops is unable to pull from patch-sets, due to the private rev nature of Gerrit Writing custom Azure function(s) to listen to Gerrit events and manually trigger a Devops build is viable, but not ideal. The prospect of abandoning Gerrit and switching to Githubs force push and squash approach makes me cry,
Coming from the Gerrit Code Review Tool it's great to find a stacked review tool for Github, having people getting in the habit of force pushing to remotes just promotes bad hygiene IMHO. Looking at the available docs, several interesting things come to min

Catchups Happy New Year! Log4j Issues, fall out, ranty commentary And now PostgreSQL JDBC gets a 9.8 CVE: Java Stuff Java 18 set for March 22, 2022 The new features in Java 18 Mark Reinhold: There are no unresolved P1 bugs in build 36, so that is the first JDK 18 Release Candidate. Binaries available here, as usual: https://jdk.java.net/18/ Java 19 builds are already available MicroProfile 5 out Helidon 2.4.2 released Quarkus 2.7.1 released Continuations [GR-34749] Continuation support independent of Project Loom. #4114 - merged. https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.html Project Loom: Fibers and Continuations for Java by Alan Bateman - YouTube - Early Continuation API sample JEP draft: Sequenced Collections JEP 423: Region Pinning for G1 I believe I read somewhere JEP 389 (Foreign Linker) are coming out of the incubator soon - Using libsodium with JEP 389 is an interesting example. Java's Options for Options - it hurts just reading this, let alone the reddit comments AZUL Cloud Compiler Jetbrains Fleet - Next Gen IDE/Editor Other Stuff Apple Removes Python 2.7 in upcoming release of macOS Apache Groovy 4 Released No Such Thing As Clean Code