The Rest of the Story: July Edition - JVM Weekly vol. 186

The new edition has some proper shape. One thread is what the JVM gives up to go fast. Leyden published which of the Java agent API’s thirty-year-old habits are now illegal. Quarkus handed back at build time what the runtime took away. A transpiler reached HotSpot parity by declining to implement parts of the spec.

The second thread took me longer to see, because it arrived as five unrelated releases. Five teams, one month, five answers to the same question: which part of this loop does the AI not get? None of them answered “all of it.”

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Plus one very nasty bug, so let’s start there.

1. July: The Rest of the Story

The most alarming thing in July arrived as a mailing list post from someone whose canary…