Java’s String type is a ubiquitous type that’s used in every program out there. Over the years, it received many improvements. And now, another exciting improvement is coming that makes String safer and easier to use: String templates.
Java 21 has recently entered “rampdown phase one”, and is planned for general availability in September! This new LTS release comes with many new features, that’s why I want to take the next few weeks to take a deeper look at the ones that excite me the most!
I’m happy to announce that my book, “A Functional Approach to Java: Augmenting Object-Oriented Java Code with Functional Principles” is finally available 🥳
After becoming a workaholic in the last three years and spending 7 days almost every week in the office, it was time for a vacation and change of scenery: a 25 days trip to South Korea and Japan. But I still needed to work on my book, so I had to take at least one device capable of doing that with me.
Almost 3½ years ago, I moved this blog from GitHub pages to my own little machine in the ether. The deployment process was based on Docker and a single Git hook. To simplify my setup further, I revamped it to use GitHub Actions instead.
Besides lambdas expressions, Java 8 introduced another language syntax change in the form of a new operator, :: (double colon), to create so-called method references.