Cay Horstmann Looming Changes in Concurrent Programming

Project Loom, which will become a part of the core platform, upends our thinking about concurrency. If blocking is cheap, is there still any benefit to reactive patterns If you can have a humongous number of threads, what is the value of thread locals Is it time to say goodbye to some features of the Java 1. 0 thread API In this presentation, I review the changes that Loom brings and contrast them with the way that Java concurrency has been traditionally explained and taught, and I present a path to a more modern approach.