<story><title>Why Continuations Are Coming to Java</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/presentations/continuations-java/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twic</author><text>&amp;gt; I serve as a technical lead for Project Loon. That is the project that&amp;#x27;s intended to add continuations and fibers to the JDK.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; However, actually, Project Loom, the goal of the project is to add continuations, fibers, and tail call elimination.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m guessing that the project is called either Loom or Loon (and i believe it&amp;#x27;s the former), but i like the idea that there are actually two cooperating projects, each of which occasionally suspends and lets the other run.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tharkun</author><text>It is indeed Loom, you know, because a loom is used to weave threads into cloth. It&amp;#x27;s possibly also a loony project, but who am I to judge.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Continuations Are Coming to Java</title><url>https://www.infoq.com/presentations/continuations-java/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twic</author><text>&amp;gt; I serve as a technical lead for Project Loon. That is the project that&amp;#x27;s intended to add continuations and fibers to the JDK.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; However, actually, Project Loom, the goal of the project is to add continuations, fibers, and tail call elimination.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m guessing that the project is called either Loom or Loon (and i believe it&amp;#x27;s the former), but i like the idea that there are actually two cooperating projects, each of which occasionally suspends and lets the other run.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thaumasiotes</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s probably Loom. It&amp;#x27;s thematically connected to &amp;quot;fibers&amp;quot; and doesn&amp;#x27;t make the immediate statement that you think your own project is doomed. Neither of those is true of Loon.</text></comment>