Status 2022-03-02

[Andrew Dinn]

On 03/03/2022 16:01, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
[n.b. including the whole java team in cc]

> On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 4:44 PM Foivos Zakkak <fzakkak at redhat.com 
> <mailto:fzakkak at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>         - New tutorial about working with Random/SplittableRandom
>         instances in native mages. Candidate for RH dev blog:
>         https://foivos.zakkak.net/tutorials/working-with-randoms-native-images/
>         <https://foivos.zakkak.net/tutorials/working-with-randoms-native-images/>
> 
> I read it today. Great work!
> 
> To add it to the RH dev blog, I'd rework it around Quarkus, rather than 
> native-image. This is the kind of feedback I'd expect from Thomas, who's 
> always interested in promoting Quarkus. A nice effect of tailoring it 
> for Quarkus is that you'd get to the issue quicker (making the post 
> smaller) because classes are build time init by default.
It is indeed a great blog post. However, to me that is not really 
because it is a useful HOWTO (for which top marks) but because it serves 
as an indictment of the state of build time initialization in native 
Java. It is dire that developers end up having to apply one or other of 
the remedies Foivos recommends. Native Java still has a very long way to go.

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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