Understanding advanced generics and type erasure in Java enhances your ability to write type-safe and efficient Java code. Let’s recap the most important points of this article.

As every Java developer knows, there are eight primitive types in Java: byte me = 5; short circuit = 10; int eresting = 30; long johns = 22; float sum = 41; double trouble = 99; char broiled = ‘a’; ...

How to use Java’s var keyword Packaged as part of the 2018 version 10 release, the Java var reserved word introduced type inference to the strongly typed Java programming language. Type inference in ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers.

In Java, algebraic data types can be modeled precisely as sealed hierarchies whose leaves are records. Java's interpretation of algebraic data types have a number of desirable properties.

We say that two types are compatible in Java if it’s possible to transfer data between variables of the types. Data transfer is possible if the compiler accepts it, and is done through ...