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Among the goals is making it easier to migrate to VS Code from other Java IDEs. There are now more than 1.5 million Java developers using the code editor, Microsoft said.

“Java 14 removes so much noise in code,” Subramaniam says, pointing to Records, Pattern Matching, and Switch Expressions. (Switch Expressions was first previewed in JDK 12).

Every time you do so, Firefox inherits a new version of the Java Console (a debugging tool that’s useless to the vast majority of users). Unfortunately, the old ones don’t get deleted.