Conversation with Project Panama lead Maurizio Cimadamore about the project's core mission, the split into foreign-memory access and foreign linker APIs, jextract, performance, interaction with Project Valhalla, the timeline, and more.

nipafx (Nicolai Parlog)

An interview with Maurizio Cimadamore, lead of Project Panama, covering the project's mission to replace JNI with a more usable and performant native interop solution. Topics include the foreign-memory access API, the foreign linker API, the jextract tool for generating interop classes, performance comparisons to JNI and Unsafe, memory confinement and threading considerations, interaction with Project Valhalla, and the expected timeline for completion around 2022/23.

The State of Project Panama with Maurizio Cimadamore