Project Valhalla will go into Java 28 (next year, and preview version).

Fingers crossed I'll manage to use null type safety in my lifetime.

pregnenolone 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> Project Valhalla will go into Java 28

Unfortunatley without specialized generics and without the performance benefits that are supposed to come with it. They were too slow with Valhalla.

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rf15 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

universal null type safety has sadly been discarded as a core concept of Valhalla in my Understanding; that being said, the proposals in Valhalla have null-safety as a side effect, but only under certain conditions.

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MrBuddyCasino 21 minutes ago | parent [-]

When (if) null safety ships, I‘m not sure I can justify using Kotlin any longer.

Java simply got too nice.

	▲	hn8726 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Multiplatform and Compose come to mind as Kotlin differentiators. I agree rest of the language actually slowly falls behind

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karussell an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

A first step of Valhalla that is ...