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		kaba0 on April 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New E... completely is the important word — there were plenty of paid-only tools back then that were part of OracleJDK but not OpenJDK. Oracle made them open-source.

jpgvm on April 12, 2023 [–]

Yeah I think Oracle doesn't get the credit they deserve for OSS-ing stuff like the Java Flight Recorder.

Of course their continued work on the big JVM features and GraalVM are huge for the community too.

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