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.

Curly-brace code blocks. Different programming languages have various ways to delineate the start and end points of a programming structure, such as a loop, method or conditional statement. For ...

Once rolled out, paste/write your code and then Insert > Building blocks, which will offer a new “Code block” menu. The five available options are C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Unset.

Step 2: Write code that uses a Java preview feature. The Java preview feature I'd like to test is the JDK 13 text block semantics. Java text blocks allow developers to write Java Strings that span ...