From Java 8 Stubbornness to Java 21: My Upgrade Journey and New Language Features
The article walks through the author's personal upgrade from Java 8 to Java 21, comparing preview features, pattern‑matching instanceof, switch expressions, text blocks, the new HTTP client, var inference, virtual threads, records, immutable collections, try‑with‑resources improvements and other enhancements, while rating each feature’s practicality.
