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Java 8++

Java 8 was released in 2014 and has been my main working horse ever since.

After using Java 8 for so many years now, I’m finally preparing to upgrade. Over the last few years, technical restrictions (backwards compatibility) suggested, that we don’t use newer versions in some of our projects. And I didn’t want to get confused over what features to use where. So I decided to stay on 8 altogether.

So here’s a list of features I’m personally looking forward to:

Java 9 (Sep 2017)

Java 14 (March 2020)

Java 15 (Sep 2020)

Java 16 (March 2021)

Java 18 (March 2022)

Future
(not yet included in Java 19, 20)