An airhacks.fm conversation with Nicolai Parlog (@nipafx) about:

use cases for Java 17 Text Blocks,

JSON with Text Blocks,

String formatted vs. replaceAll,

string templates could ship with Java 19,

the draft JEP for string template,

draft JEPs don’t have a number,

100k subscribers for the Java channel and the silver youtube plate,

Silver Creator Award youtube,

factory collection methods in Java 9,

Map.of and List.of,

Java Records for code reduction,

Java records vs. classes,

getters and setters are not necessary,

polymorphic classes vs. procedural record,

nicer Pairs with Java records,

Sun Coding Java Conventions / Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language,

a code formatter JEP,

JEP 413: Code Snippets in Java API Documentation,

the new switch without a name,

no fall-through with arrow switches,

sealed types and pattern matching with switch statements,

JEP 380: Unix-Domain Socket Channels,

RandomGeneratorFactory in Java 17,