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It's time for #JavaTuesdayThread!

You know that JDK 19 will be released in 2 months on Sept. 20th. It will bring some major changes to the JDK. Project #Loom is one of those HUGE changes I want to talk about a little bit more. #Java #OpenJDK
JEP 425 introduces Virtual Threads. The most interesting thing is that the JDK was reworked to make it possible to block both platform and virtual threads in different ways.
While thread blocking methods will put on pause the whole platform thread, the virtual thread blocking wouldn't block its underlying carrier thread so it can pick up the segment of another virtual thread to execute.
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