After more than a decade of development, Project Valhalla is finally entering the JDK mainline. JEP...

Project Valhalla's JEP 401 will bring value classes to JDK 28, removing object identity from Java types in a 197,000-line change twelve years in the making

Don't hold your breath, though – architect Brian Goetz warns devs it will likely still be preview in next LTS release