Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format) to facilitate better-defined encoding, under a plan afoot in the OpenJDK Java community.

Java 12 arrives with switch expressions to improve coding and allow pattern matching, and raw string literals to simplify multiline expressions The production release of Java Development Kit 12 ...

Already prevalent in the JavaScript and TypeScript communities, VS Code is also gaining popularity among Java developers who want to switch between front-end React Apps and back-end Java apps without ...

Microsoft's regular monthly update to Java on Visual Studio Code (May 2023) brings new features around performance improvement, the user experience and Spring Boot integration, among many others. One ...

According to The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index, in February 2022, Java was the second most popular language in the world, and its use has grown by 1.2% compared to February 2021.

switch statement expressions; and; sealed classes. Java Records. One knock about the Java programming language is its needless verbosity and ceremony, especially compared to other programming ...

“Java 14 removes so much noise in code,” Subramaniam says, pointing to Records, Pattern Matching, and Switch Expressions. (Switch Expressions was first previewed in JDK 12).

The regular monthly update to Java on Visual Studio Code sees added shortcut snippets aligning with other editors, optimized code completion, improvements to the Maven build automation tool and more ...