In the short term, I'm going to focus on getting binary JDK 25 (probably Zulu) and GraalVM 25 (probably Oracle) working in Nixpkgs. And also the JDK Dashboard tool, which seems like a cool way for me to learn more about Nix programming since it seems to basically require two things:

1. Learning how to pull information about packages out of Nixpkgs
2. Learning how to process attribute sets with various functional transforms

I personally think 25 is a big milestone release for the JDK. The FFM stuff is really cool for many reasons. And finally the hello world program is reduced to:

void main() {
    IO.println("Hello, World!");
}

I used to think that making "hello world" simpler wasn't a big deal, but it is important in 3 ways:

1. Makes it less intimidating for new devs to learn Java
2. Helps with changing the obsolete view that Java is verbose
3. Greatly simplifies the sample code you have to write for your libraries

I used to think that making "hello world" simpler -- JEP 512 -- wasn't a big deal, but it is important in 3 ways:

1. Makes it less intimidating for new devs to learn Java
2. Helps with changing the obsolete view that Java is verbose
3. Greatly simplifies the sample code you have to write for your libraries