Tate suggested opening up the JVM to dynamic languages such as Ruby. “We can run dynamic languages that are more productive” by doing this, he said. Enterprise Java, Tate said, is in good shape.

The sun.misc.Unsafe class has been Java's unofficial interface for systems programming needs, but since JDK 9, the goal has been to move towards removing access to this JDK-internal API.

Java is guided by several excellent architects and has regular contributions from a wide variety of experts across industry. Together this ensures the software remains relevant to the changing ...