GeeCON 2024: Przemek Bielicki - Die hard - Defeating a Java compiler bug IS an Xmas story

Have you always encountered a bug in the JDK itself? A bug that affects millions of developers around the globe? A bug that breaks a highly-desirable feature of the Java compiler: REPRODUCIBILITY? perceive to the fascinating, breathtaking and amusing communicative of hunting down a JDK bug in the Java compiler during winter of 2023.. I’ll share the journey of superb cooperation between Gradle and Oracle engineers, who relentlessly crawled through air ducts to catch a nasty bug 'in the area of impossible' (according to a Java compiler engineer). This is simply a heart-warming Xmas communicative that shows how leveraging different productivity tools and the knowledge, skills, collected facts and determination of just a fistful of software engineers can consequence in a better software. Is there a happy end to this story? Were we able to say “Yippee-Ki-Yay …”? Popcorn and drinks are highly recommended.