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Yes, however, the Loom project is still some years away and the Java standard library will need to be extensively revamped to support this. I see this easily a decade in the future.


They have been rewamping the Java standard library slowly and silently over the last couple of years in anticipation for Loom. With Java 14 they re-wrote the tcp socket class. In Java 15 they're re-implementing the udp socket class. These re-implementations are being done to support loom seamlessly in a future update.

They also collaborated with IntelliJ to find bugs related to debugging Java apps, to make sure Loom doesn't break anything there.

Loom is well underway. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw Loom in Java 19 or 20. So in 2-3 years.


Hell, I just used loom last night on some pet projects. You can use it today if you dare.


The next LTS version of Java is planneed to to be Java 21 (fall 2021, numbers a coincidence) and my presumption is they are trying to get it into that.




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