With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.

Java SE 13 introduced text blocks as a preview feature, aimed at reducing the pain of declaring and using multi-line string literals in Java. It was subsequently refined in a second preview, with ...

Java text blocks allow developers to write Java Strings that span multiple lines of code. JDK 13 text blocks are delineated by three consecutive double quotes. A simple example of an executable Java ...

In this cycle, the team added more code-completion shortcuts to generate code snippets, which were based on the Eclipse convention because Java-specific functionality comes from the Eclipse JDT ...

Generally, Java compilers are run and pointed to a programmer's code in a text file to produce a class file for use by the JVM on different platforms. Jikes, for example, is an open source compiler ...