# Foojay Podcast #64: Interviews at JFall about opensource, OpenJDK evolutions, Project Loom, JVM,...

> Let's wrap up this year with more interviews from the JFall conference. In this episode you'll learn more about Foojay, JVM internals and writing your own…

- URL: https://foojay.io/today/foojay-podcast-64/
- Published: 2024-12-23
- Authors: Anthony Goubard, Frank Delporte, Geertjan Wielenga, Hanno Embregts
- Categories: Cloud, Conference, Foojay, Java, Java Beginner, Java Core, JavaFX, JUGs, Podcast


Let's wrap up this year with more interviews from the JFall conference.

In this episode you'll learn more about Foojay, JVM internals and writing your own programming language, Project Loom and structured concurrency, learning at conferences, code reviews, creating desktop applications with Java, infrastructure as code, JUG Noord, and much more!

## Video

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## Guests

* Geertjan Wielenga: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/geertjanwielenga/>
* Nataliia Dziubenko: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliia-dziubenko-341919b8/>
* Hanno Embregts: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannotify/>
* Hinse ter Schuur: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/hinseterschuur/>
* Anthony Goubard: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonygoubard/>
* Steffan Norberhuis: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/steffannorberhuis/>
* Paulien van Alst: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulienvanalst/>
* Lutske de Leeuw: <https://www.linkedin.com/in/lutske/>
* Johan Hutting

## Content

00:00 Introduction of topics and guests

01:09 Geertjan Wielenga: OpenJDK evolutions  

01:47 The goal of Foojay, the website for the Friends Of OpenJDK  
<https://foojay.io/>

03:49 Nataliia Dziubenko: What you can learn at conferences  

04:48 Writing your own programming language on top of JVM  

07:30 What it learned her about the Java compiler  

08:38 How it influenced her career as a Java developer

11:20 Hanno Embregts: Project Loom, structured concurrency and scoped values  

14:04 Playing music during conference talks  

15:09 Important OpenJDK evolutions

17:07 Hinse ter Schuur: Learning at conferences  

17:58 Best practices for code reviews

20:03 Anthony Goubard: Creating desktop apps with Java  
<https://www.japplis.com>

22:45 Steffan Norberhuis: Infrastructure code for AWS  
<https://www.rocketleap.dev/>  

23:50 Java as a Cloud language  

24:54 How developers look at infrastructure  

26:03 Is getting locked into a single cloud vendor a risk?

28:03 Paulien van Alst, Lutske de Leeuw en Johan Hutting: Introducing JUG Noord  
<https://www.meetup.com/jug-noord>  

29:20 Introducing VoxxedDays Amsterdam  
[https://amsterdam.voxxeddays.com/](https://amsterdam.voxxeddays.com/%20)  

29:40 NLJUG versus local JUGs  

30:06 Starting as a new speaker at JUGs  

30:24 How to contribute to opensource  

31:24 How to speak at JUG Noord  

31:53 Learned at JFall

32:38 Outro