Episode 164 - Moments before Isolation

Welcome to the first episode of 2020 - recorded just before all of Coronavirus Mania and then promptly the editing and publishing got unfortunately thrown to the sidelines for a week. This week (ha) Greg and I discuss the upcoming Java 14 release, along with C++20, and the granddaddy of functional programming - Miranda. Multiline String literals with Java Text Blocks Preview APIs in the Java Platform Java 14 Arrives with a Host of New Features JDK 14: The new features in Java 14 Stephen Colebourne’s Tweet Thread on JDK Modules Miranda (forerunner to Haskell) open sourced C++20 IS FEATURE COMPLETE; HERE’S WHAT CHANGES ARE COMING Project LightSpeed: Rewriting the Messenger codebase for a faster, smaller, and simpler messaging app