Inline Values and Customized Variables View for Debugging: the Debugger for Java extension that's available standalone or in the aforementioned extension pack can now show variable values inline in ...

“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 "Understanding Java threads" series concludes by uncovering some of the loose ends of threading: thread groups, volatility, thread-local variables, timers, and thread death.

The method I presented here might not work well in multithreaded code. There's a high chance not all threads will see the variable change immediately so that it might cause some additional problems.