Java dev productivity report, Java 18, Google cloud pricing and other news (Ep 5)

JDK 18 is released, there's controversy over Google Cloud's price increase, a new look for MDN, a mysterious npm package that does nothing but has over 700 thousand downloads. And a walk through of the Java developer productivity report from JRebel. All this and more in this episode of the Artifact. Java 18 is here https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2022-March/006458.html https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/the-arrival-of-java-18 MDN and MDN plus https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/03/a-new-year-a-new-mdn/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/03/introducing-mdn-plus-make-mdn-your-own/ JavaOne 2022 https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/javaone-2022 Mystery empty npm package https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/empty-npm-package-has-over-700-000-downloads-heres-why/ Google cloud pricing updates https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/updates-to-google-clouds-infrastructure-pricing JRebel developer productivity report https://www.jrebel.com/resources/java-developer-productivity-report-2022 PicoCLI https://picocli.info/