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Ygg2yesterday at 6:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Green threads are a very controversial design choice that even JVM backed out of.

Did they? Project Loom has stabilized around Java 21, no?


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voidifremovedyesterday at 7:46 PM

Virtual Threads aren't quite the same as green threads (they don't block the OS thread) and they work extremely well now.

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rafaelmnyesterday at 7:21 PM

I stand corrected, I stopped keeping track of JVM years ago, was referring to initial green threads implementation.