An airhacks.fm conversation with Christian Stein (@sormuras) about:

early computing experiences with C64,

learning Basic and Pascal,

transition to Java programming,

developing a commercial Java game using lwjgl,

involvement with JUnit testing framework as a committer,

work on openJDK and Java tools at Oracle,

discussion about Java build tools and dependency management,

vision for a simpler Java build process using only JDK tools,

multi-file source code feature in Java 22,

pluggable dependency resolution,

tool provider interface introduced in Java 9,

potential for a new ecosystem of Java tools,

Bach - Java Shell Builder,

Adam's YouTube channel with Java programming shorts,

misconceptions about Java's verbosity,

future plans for Java build tools