I imagine that everybody in this community has seen this JEP, but I’m just so happy that we finally have exhaustive pattern matching in java.
My job has also announced a multi-million plan to get rid of websphere and java 8, so maybe I may even see these features at my job one day ^^
to get rid of websphere and java 8
haha, I was going to say “cool feature but I’m still on Java 8 / 11”
In 2014 my first job as a junior developer we were on Java 6 on WebSphere. We didn’t even get try-with-resources lol.
I think in 2014 I was working on Java 5. Then maybe 5 years later we went to 7. Then I changed jobs to a place on 6. Then we migrated to 8.
Since then I think I’ve had one project on Java 11 and everything else has been Java 8.
I do have a persona side project on Java 20, at least.
Friend, I pray that you are going to at least Java 17 and not to 11 lol. Heck, if you can wait a few months 21 will be out and you’ll have virtual threads! (Actually I can’t remember if it is a preview in 21 or not off the top of my head.)
The target is 17 at the moment, but I’m keeping hope for version 21.
Example code from the link for the lazy,
// As of Java 21 static String formatterPatternSwitch(Object obj) { return switch (obj) { case Integer i -> String.format("int %d", i); case Long l -> String.format("long %d", l); case Double d -> String.format("double %f", d); case String s -> String.format("String %s", s); default -> obj.toString(); }; }
