The Supreme Court has sided with Google in the long-running Java API copyright case known as Oracle v. Google, finding that Google is legally entitled to use elements of Java APIs in its Android code.

Sure, people shouldn’t be calling Java’s deprecated methods, but given the fact that they work, compounded with the fact that fifteen to twenty years after being deprecated they’re still hanging ...

The JIT compiler can translate this directly without the need for autovectorization. This is what the Java Vector API, introduced as an incubator module in JDK 16, is designed to do.