Java Features We Love (2020)

JetBrains loves all programming languages, and developers of all types This May, Java turns 25 years old To celebrate Java s 25th birthday, we wanted to highlight some of the features of Java that developers love to work with: Collections API Convenience factory methods for collections Streams API Lambda Expressions Optional Checked exceptions Annotations JShell (Java REPL) Local Variable Type Inference (var) Access modifiers and modularity Switch expressions Helpful NullPointerExceptions Preview features (Records; Pattern matching for instanceof; and Text Blocks)