Java Language Futures: Spring 2022 Edition

The Java Programming Language is evolving fast! Join Gavin Bierman for a whirlwind tour of recent changes as well as a peek into the future. Discover the features you’ll be using when writing Java code next year and beyond!

Presented by Gavin Bierman - Consulting Member Of Technical Staff, Oracle

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Tags: #Java #OracleDevLive #Java18 #JDK18 #OpenJDK

[lucassikina]

Thank you for showing how sealed classes pair with pattern matching switch statements to create exhaustive switch expressions without useless default cases. I was so happy when I figured out that that worked!

[ramdaneoualitsen]

Hello. What about nullsafety? Is java going to get one any time in the future?

[VisruthCV]

Very informative presentation, thanks for the update!

[svenbb]

Will it be possible to write something like the following?
static void test(String s) {
switch (s) {
case null -> ...
case (s.length() == 1) -> ...
default s -> ...
}
}

[hibour]

When Java will add operator overloading? Coding arithmetic operations with BigDecimal/BigInteger is a hassle, many jvm based languages (kotlin, scala, groovy) have this feature, and I don't understand why there is no a JEP for that!

[BigggRicee]

Java seems to be constantly absorbing features from third party libraries and turning it into a built-in battery. At some point in the future record may kill Lombok. of course, this may take a long time, as my company is still using Java8。😂😂😂😂

[dd.d]

Wow. I thought Project Amber is just about switches

[gabosol]

Hate to be the grammar nazi here, but I think the video title has a typo? I though when I clicked the link that this was a video about concurrency.