where java is going

valhalla, leyden, amber, loom, panama. what's landing next and why it matters.

1. 01valhalla: value objectspreviewobjects without identity, flattened into arrays. preview in jdk 28.
2. 02leyden: starting fastpreviewAOT caches today, AOT code next.
3. 03amber: the language keeps movingpreviewderived record creation, and what happened to string templates.
4. 04loom: what's leftpreviewstructured concurrency going final, and beyond.
5. 05panama and babylonpreviewvectors, native code, and java on GPUs.
6. 06what's nextpreviewthe json api, null-restricted types, CRaC, and how to follow along.