Advent of Code – Day 19

I’m trying to solve all the Advent of Code puzzles in this video series.

In this video, we go through how to install all the required prerequisite packages and Keystone.

I started to use a lot of the paint functions in Java at work and I wanted to create an example that could teach me about the different shaders available in Java. The paint interface is not something you come across if you don’t draw things in Java but having an understanding of the possibilities…

We talk about building different file utils and how they can be stringed together to great usage.

Java 18 is released, and the new JDK will bring a lot of interesting features to java. We go through all the features in 18 and talk about the performance benefits and some important caviats to keep track on in your code.

In this video we setup rust jni to call a rust function from java using jni. Java native interface is a great way to enable quick calls to native code built in other languages like Rust. This approach can be used for other languages as well.