<story><title>Z Garbage Collector: The Next Generation</title><url>https://inside.java/2023/04/23/levelup-zgc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwr</author><text>As a Clojure programmer, I&amp;#x27;m so happy that I&amp;#x27;m getting all these improvements over many years. It&amp;#x27;s fashionable to complain about Java — but I don&amp;#x27;t use Java, and yet I benefit from all the fantastic work that is being done on the JVM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jpe90</author><text>The excellent backwards compatibility rocks too. This weekend I wanted a library to diagram the class hierarchy of a Java project I put together.&lt;p&gt;I found a 10 year old library that worked with no issues, I was done in minutes even though I rarely use Java or Clojure so my familiarity is low. There are very few languages where I would have a similar experience.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;stuartsierra&amp;#x2F;class-diagram&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;stuartsierra&amp;#x2F;class-diagram&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Z Garbage Collector: The Next Generation</title><url>https://inside.java/2023/04/23/levelup-zgc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jwr</author><text>As a Clojure programmer, I&amp;#x27;m so happy that I&amp;#x27;m getting all these improvements over many years. It&amp;#x27;s fashionable to complain about Java — but I don&amp;#x27;t use Java, and yet I benefit from all the fantastic work that is being done on the JVM.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjmlp</author><text>That is the positive attitude, it always irks me when guest language comunities bash the platform that make their language even possible in first place.&lt;p&gt;Everything sucks, but then they gladly take the platform, the ecosystem of libraries, debuggers and what not from the host platform.</text></comment>