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It seems that it is almost in prototyping stage, the usual suspects have already written a sketch of a future proposal: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/value

It seems that it is almost in prototyping stage, the usual suspects have already written a sketch of a future proposal: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/values.html http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/values.html

stusmall 12y ago
Awesome! Thanks. I don't know much about the path from idea to standardized feature with the JVM. Is there hope for it in Java 9 or is this much farther out in the future? Probably first and more importantly, what is the chance for this even ever happening?
- hyperpape 12y ago
  "the path from idea to standardized feature" Guy Steele was asking for value types in 1998 (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf)
  - Padding 12y ago
    Yeah, but he was also asking for operator overloading.
    - hyperpape 12y ago
      Well, I don't have a problem with that, but it's not really relevant. The community liked one proposal and disliked the other, but it still took almost two decades to handle the one it liked.
      - Padding 12y ago
        My point was that him simply liking/proposing it doesn't mean much.
- karianna 12y ago
  Likely delivery timeframe for value types in Java 10. Definitely not Java 9. Source - many conversations with Brian Goetz et al.