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A ton of huge stuff was in JDK 16 though, and seems most companies won't upgrade until LTS releases, so folks should be looking at JDK 17 as JDK 12-17 if they'r
by gavinray 5y ago
A ton of huge stuff was in JDK 16 though, and seems most companies won't upgrade until LTS releases, so folks should be looking at JDK 17 as JDK 12-17 if they're in a corporate environment.
Records, multiline strings, pattern matching for instanceof, handling nulls in pattern matching/switch, sealed classes/interfaces, probably other things I'm forgetting.
I had never written Java before until recently, and thank god for JDK16 features. Only thing that made it slightly tolerable.