Oh, boy, a bunch of releases:
- Guava 20, the ultra-useful third-party library for Java that virtually everyone can and should be willing to use, has been released…
- MongoDB 3.4, the NoSQL document database used by jabavot and many others, has been released…
- LWJGL 3.1.0, the lightweight java graphics library, has been released…
Finally, DZone publishes something I wanted to read:
- “Everything You Want to Know About ThreadLocal Random Implementation,” a really interesting walk through a random number generator.
- From cheeser: Whiley, “A Programming Language with Extended Static Checking.” It’s another language for the JVM with significant whitespace (blocks are determined by indentation); it also provides a way for methods and functions to guarantee at the compilation stage that return values comply with a specification. It looks neat. It’s been around since 2009, and there’s no way to tell if it has any sort of path to critical mass yet. Take a look!