Project Loom - Revolution in Concurrency or Obscure Implementation Detail?

Dive into a comprehensive exploration of Project Loom, a groundbreaking effort to introduce lightweight threads to the JVM, in this conference talk from IntelliJ IDEA Conf 2022. Discover how Project Loom enables the creation of millions of threads with minimal memory and scheduling footprint, potentially revolutionizing concurrent programming. Learn about the advantages of Loom, including the ability to forget about thread pools, obscure non-blocking APIs, and complex stack traces from reactive frameworks. Explore the core concepts of Loom, its implementation details, and how it compares to coroutines and async/await. Gain insights into the problems Loom solves, its potential shortcomings, and whether it renders reactive programming obsolete. Presented by Tomasz Nurkiewicz, CTO at DevSkiller and Java Champion, this talk offers a deep dive into the future of concurrency in Java development.