📅 Date: August 26, 2025
 🕕 Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM BST
 📡 Livestream: https://youtube.com/live/V03wKwcegxg

🔧 Java is fast, reliable, and well-supported in IDEs – but its build tools like Maven and Gradle can be anything but. In this session, Haoyi Li dives into why build tooling is such a complex domain and how concepts from object-oriented programming (OOP) can simplify the experience.

📌 He’ll introduce Mill, a new experimental Java build tool designed to make Java builds faster, safer, and more intuitive using OOP principles.

👨‍💻 Speaker: Haoyi Li – MIT grad, former engineer at Dropbox and Databricks, major open-source contributor with over 10,000 GitHub stars. JVM expert with deep experience in backend systems, programming languages, and cloud infrastructure.

🎙️ Host: Grace Robinson – Java Champion and Product Manager at IBM, speaker, author, and STEM advocate, bringing a unique cross-disciplinary perspective from biology to software architecture.

💬 Join the conversation in the vJUG Slack: https://bit.ly/vJUG-Slack