In Java, there have always existed primitive types and references, but not value types. One of the goals of Project Valhalla is to explore and incubate feature candidates such as value types. I w...

I've started reading about Project Valhalla and there is something I really don't understand and it's the Value Types. This is what I understand: 1) Are objects that can't be compare it as refere...

In the context of Java's Project Valhalla, how can I generically initialize a value type with its default value? Initially, I thought that assigning null to any value type would perform this initi...

Sonar shows Make this value-based field transient so it is not included in the serialization of this class. This is a future-proof bug when value-based class will be released. So, if the a...

Generic specialization along with value types are a projected feature of future JVMs; link to the Valhalla project page here. Now, from what I understand, it would then become possible to declare ...