Microsoft Java Blog
devblogs.microsoft.com/java · Company blog · on HN since 2019
Microsoft's engineering blog on its Java work, covering its OpenJDK build, garbage collection tooling, Azure support, and Java in Visual Studio Code.
What HN saysHN commenters cite it as evidence that Microsoft invests in Java, often because of Azure, and for VS Code Java features like hot code replacement.
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- 6Java on Visual Studio Code Update – February 20211 people · 10 points · first shared 2021 · 7 comments on HN
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- 14Java on Visual Studio Code Update – August 20201 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 15Improving OpenJdk Scalar Replacement1 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
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pjmlp · 2026-06-19
Ironically, they still Java for Azure, https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java
the-alchemist · 2021-11-12
You can actually do something similar (much more limited, it sounds like) on Java, of all things.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/hot-code-replacement-for-java-come…
As long as it doesn't change the class signature, you can happily edit-save-replace code, and it jumps to the top of the method you're editing. It's basically instant, so you don't suffer the javac and JVM startup cost.
I don't think I can do the same in more dynamic languages, like Ruby or Python. Or, maybe, my IDEs don't support it (IntelliJ suite).
newlisper · 2021-03-06
Actually, Microsoft cares a lot about Java and they invest resources on it. Why? azure
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/
voxic11 · 2020-05-06
vscode supports call hierarchy searches, but its not supported by all languages yet. Support was recently added for java https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/java-on-visual-studio-code-update-…