A new JEP proposes enhancements to lambda functionality, including better disambiguation, use of the underscore for unused parameters, and shadowing of outer variables. Although these changes would bring lambdas in Java closer to other languages', the com...

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This page provides production-ready open-source builds of the Java Development Kit, version 23, an implementation of the Java SE 23 Platform under the GNU General Public License, version 2, with the Classpath Exception. (more…)

Java.util package provides an IdentityHashMap class which implements the Map interface with a hash table, using reference-equality in place of object-equality when comparing keys (and values). In other words, in an IdentityHashMap, two keys k1 and k2 are ... (more…)

tl;dr So far I’ve been hesitant to embrace static type checkers like TypeScript. It’s because I associated static type checking with the … (more…)