Episode 17 “Pattern Matching for switch” [AtA]

In this episode, David discusses with Gavin Bierman a new set of Java language features coming from Project Amber, i.e. Pattern Matching. In addition to sealed classes and pattern matching for instanceof, they are covering in great detail a new (and great!) JDK 17 preview feature: pattern matching for switch.

Show Notes

Java 16

• JEP 394: Pattern Matching for instanceof

• JEP 395: Records

• JDK 16 builds

Java 17

• JEP 406: Pattern Matching for switch (Preview)

• JEP 409: Sealed Classes

• JDK 17 Early-Access builds

Post Java 17

• JEP 405: Record Patterns & Array Patterns (Preview)

• Pattern Matching for Java (Sept 2018)

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