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Mark Reinhold

Personal blog · mreinhold.org/blogprogramming

Mark Reinhold's personal blog at mreinhold.org covers programming. Since 2011, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Moving Java Forward Even Faster”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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23mentions?
21HN people?
2011–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2014

Most-linked posts?

  1. Moving Java Forward Even Faster
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-09-14
  2. Java 8: Secure the train (or: GA date slipping into 2014)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-04-18
  3. JDK 9 Early-access Build 41 Available – Images are now modular
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-12-09
  4. Project Jigsaw: Complete
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-21
  5. JDK 8: General Availability
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-18
  6. Project Jigsaw: Late for the Train (Java modularity to be postponed to 2015)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-17
  7. Moving Java Forward Faster
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-06

What Hacker News says?

  1. kasperni · 2021-09-14
    Some other news in relation to the release: - (Proposal) Moving JDK LTS versions to a two year cadence [1]. Java 21 will be next LTS instead of Java 23. - Oracle JDK is now free for commercial and production use [2]. - A new Java developer site [3]. [1] https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-even-faster [2] https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/free-java-license [3] https://dev.java/

    Comment linking /blog/forward-even-faster

    on “Java 17 / JDK 17: General Availability”
  2. artbristol · 2017-09-24

    Submitted Project Jigsaw: Complete as a story · 184 points

    HN discussion
  3. suyash · 2014-03-18
    Here is Chief Java Platform Architect: Mark Mark Reinhold’s Blog about JDK 8 and the key main features: http://mreinhold.org/blog/jdk8-ga

    Comment linking /blog/jdk8-ga

    on “JDK 8 Release Notes”
  4. pron · 2017-09-06

    Submitted Moving Java Forward Faster as a story · 158 points

    HN discussion
  5. carimura · 2022-03-22
    LTS was proposed by Mark Reinhold [1] who leads the JDK Project in the OpenJDK community in 2017. There was a lot of discussion [2] that resulted in many vendors supporting and adopting the LTS model. It's a thriving ecosystem (which is great!) but yes, Oracle does contribute a significant portion [3]. [1] https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster [2] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-Septemb... […

    Comment linking /blog/forward-faster

    on “Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability”
  6. aardvark179 · 2017-05-05

    Submitted An Open Letter to the JCP Executive Committee as a story · 97 points

    HN discussion
  7. syjer · 2015-09-10
    That's why it's called a modular jar. There is also this "jmod" file described as: "For the purpose of modularizing the Java SE Platform’s reference implementation, the JDK, we will introduce a new artifact format that goes beyond JAR files to accommodate native code, configuration files, and other kinds of data that do not fit naturally, if at all, into JAR files. This format leverages another advantage of expressi…

    Comment linking /blog/jigsaw-modular-images

    on “Java 9: The State of the Module System”
  8. SanderMak · 2013-04-18

    Submitted Java 8: Secure the train (or: GA date slipping into 2014) as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  9. melling · 2014-02-18
    Java startup time will hopefully be fixed in Java 9. That also has been eagerly anticipated for quite some time. http://mreinhold.org/blog/late-for-the-train

    Comment linking /blog/late-for-the-train

    on “Java SE 8 Date and Time”
  10. mreinhold · 2021-09-14

    Submitted Moving Java Forward Even Faster as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  11. llemiengre · 2013-09-25
    I may be wrong but afaik java 8 has been delayed once ( http://mreinhold.org/blog/secure-the-train )

    Comment linking /blog/secure-the-train

    on “The Second Coming of Java”
  12. cpeterso · 2014-07-03

    Submitted Java 9's Project Jigsaw: Phase Two as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  13. bhauer · 2013-09-09

    Submitted JDK 8 Developer Preview as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  14. javinpaul · 2014-12-09

    Submitted JDK 9 Early-access Build 41 Available – Images are now modular as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  15. shock · 2017-09-21

    Submitted Project Jigsaw: Complete as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  16. SanderMak · 2012-07-17

    Submitted Project Jigsaw: Late for the Train (Java modularity to be postponed to 2015) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  17. javinpaul · 2016-03-26

    Submitted Project Jigsaw (Module system) merged into JDK 9 as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. sgt · 2016-09-13

    Submitted Schwartz Named False Prophet by Oracle's Java Chief Architect as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Mitt · 2013-04-28

    Submitted Java 8 not before Spring 2014 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. 0xedb · 2021-09-15

    Submitted Moving Java Forward Even Faster as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  21. apetresc · 2014-03-18

    Submitted JDK 8: General Availability as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. bokchoi · 2011-05-25

    Submitted Mark Reinhold: Requirements of a standard Java module system as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. bensummers · 2011-01-18

    Submitted JDK 7 is Feature-Complete as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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