https://dplabs.tech/tags/language-features/ Recent content in Language-Features on dplabs — Software Engineering & Technology Consultancy Hugo en-us Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://dplabs.tech/blog/java-9-to-17-features/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://dplabs.tech/blog/java-9-to-17-features/ <p>Java 8 was a turning point. Lambdas and streams changed the language substantially. Then came a long stretch where each release felt like maintenance work — modules in 9 were important but painful, and the subsequent releases improved the language incrementally without a clear headline.</p> <p>That changed with Java 14–17. The features that landed in this window — records, sealed classes, pattern matching for <code>instanceof</code>, text blocks, switch expressions — are not conveniences. They change how you model domains and reason about code.</p>