Project Loom - A Friend or Foe of Reactive? - Oleh Dokuka, VMware & Andrii Rodionov

Project Loom - A Friend or Foe of Reactive? - Oleh Dokuka, VMware & Andrii Rodionov, National Technical University We heard about Project Loom - the new programming models on the Java platform for high-throughput lightweight concurrency and threading. Project Loom will give a structured concurrency in Java which enables writing efficient async apps using imperative paradigm. With that, many started questioning whether the Functional and Reactive approach remains with that in the Java ecosystem. In that talk, we going to busters the myth of Loom killing Reactive and instead discuss how Loom will improve the Reactive ecosystem and make it more robust and simpler to use.