Java’s thread model makes it a strong contender among concurrent languages, but multithreading has always been inherently tricky. Structured concurrency allows you to use multiple threads with ...

The basic idea remains the same: replace the traditional Java thread model, which has been basically a wrapper around OS processes, with something more lightweight.

JDK 21's virtual threads are a major leap forward for Java's concurrency model. Previously, Java relied on OS threads, which were resource-heavy, limiting how many threads could run concurrently.