I've just watched a recording of a presentation by Stephen Colbourne from Devoxx Belgium "The New Java Best Practices by Stephen Colebourne".
Some of them I agreed with, some I am yet to warm to.
- I haven't made much use of "var" in place of specifying a variable type, so I still find code more readable when the type is specified.
- I am fully onboard with the best practice about the use of modules, "arguably the biggest change since Java 8".
- unnamed variables came in Java 22, which might explain why I haven't encountered it so far - as companies tend to stick to long term support (LTS) versions of the language so I only got to Java 21.
- markdown docs. Check out the Inside Java podcast about this ( https://inside.java/2025/01/21/podcast-034/ )
- Optional and null - the code style example shows how Optional can flow as more readable
This is not an exhaustive breakdown of what Colbourne covered, so I recommend that you take a look for yourself.
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