Enhance the Java programming language with records, which are classes that act as transparent carriers for immutable data. Records can be thought of as nominal tuples.

Mutability, nullability, serialization, primitives – Java seems to have gotten most things wrong. But could it have been successful otherwise? Brian Goetz an…

The software industry styles itself on architecture and construction, but rarely discusses aesthetics.

Java SE 14 (March 2020) introduced a limited form of pattern matching as a preview feature, which becomes a permanent feature in Java SE 16 (March 2021). The first phase of pattern matching is limited to one kind of pattern (type patterns) and one languag…

One of the latest fashions in the Java world is GraalVM. For someone who has been around, I still remember the “Write once, run anywhere” slogan of Java virtual machine. Apparently, the wheel has spun back, now people want to write native code in Java, wh…

The JavaFX API’s allow Java developers to create Java applications with a user interface.

Reading a blog post about what’s coming up in JDK 16 recently, I learned that one of the new features is support for Unix domain sockets (JEP 380). Before Java 16, you’d have to resort to 3rd party libraries like jnr-unixsocket in order to use them. If y…

Learn hot to use Lambda expression in Java 8 Stream to easily filter, sort and manipulate collections like Lists and Sets.

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