Java dev productivity report, Java 18, Google cloud pricing and other news (Ep 5)

The Artifact

JDK 18 is released, there's controversy over Google Cloud's price increase, a new look for MDN, a mysterious npm package that does nothing but has over 700 thousand downloads. And a walk through of the Java developer productivity report from JRebel. All this and more in this episode of the Artifact.

Java 18 is here

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2022-March/006458.html

https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/the-arrival-of-java-18

MDN and MDN plus

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/03/a-new-year-a-new-mdn/

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/03/introducing-mdn-plus-make-mdn-your-own/

JavaOne 2022

https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/javaone-2022

Mystery empty npm package

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/empty-npm-package-has-over-700-000-downloads-heres-why/

Google cloud pricing updates

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/updates-to-google-clouds-infrastructure-pricing

JRebel developer productivity report

https://www.jrebel.com/resources/java-developer-productivity-report-2022

PicoCLI

https://picocli.info/

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