When I was writing code regularly in both C++ and Java in the early days of Java, I often missed Java's (at the time) lack of an enum. Fortunately, when Java finally got its enum , it was worth ...

Most new Java developers quickly learn that they should generally compare Java Strings using String.equals(Object) rather than using == . This is emphasized and reinforced to new developers ...

JEP 441, Pattern Matching for the switch, is completed in JDK 21, following four previews in JDKs 17-20 (JEPs 406, 420, 427, 433). It finalizes the feature, addressing feedback from previews, and ...