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👉 Join us for JavaOne 2026. Sign up now to get ongoing updates https://go.oracle.com/LP=149517 Java is a 30-year success story, made possible because its development consistently aligned with users' needs. In its early days, the platform required new features quickly, but over time, minimizing code breakage while carefully evolving the platform became essential. Critical junctures along that path included the introduction of modules and the current strive toward integrity by default. Nicolai Parlog talks to Mark Reinhold, Chief Architect of the Java Platform, who has almost 30 years of experience driving Java forward. ⎯⎯⎯⎯ Chapters ⎯⎯⎯⎯ 0:00 Intro 0:53 Java's Early Days 4:40 A History of Breaking Changes 9:16 sun.misc.Unsafe 12:58 OpenJDK vs Hyrum's Law 16:06 Enabling Evolution Through Encapsulation 20:42 Deliberate Evolution 26:22 Benefits of Integrity 30:21 Final Should Mean Final 33:20 Troublesome Features Aren't (Automatically) Bad 34:22 There's no Module *System* 39:09 The Journey Towards Integrity More episodes ➤ https://inside.java/podcast/ Tags: #Java #OpenJDK #Podcast #InsideJava #Amber #Valhalla