Java's Quirks and Wrong (?) Defaults with Brian Goetz

Mutability, nullability, serialization, primitives - Java seems to have gotten most things wrong. But could it have been successful otherwise? Brian Goetz and I discuss why Java is the way it is. 00:00 Intro 03:28 What's wrong with serialization? 12:06 How it could've been better 19:20 null - the hole in Java's type system 23:20 Why that's not easy to fix 28:01 Strict mode, compatibility, trade-offs 34:03 Nominal vs structural typing 36:23 Java got all the defaults wrong 43:10 Primitives then and now 48:16 Brian's favorite language 51:22 Outro Brian: Java Language Architect at Oracle; creator of lambdas and streams; bringer of var, switch expressions, and records; harbinger of pattern matching, reinvented serialization, and value types. https://twitter.com/BrianGoetz Nicolai: Website: https://nipafx.dev Twitter: https://twitter.com/nipafx Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/nipafx​