Java is a programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. The general-purpose, object-oriented language is designed to be written once; the code can be run on practically any ...

“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).

While the library has been used by Java coders in VS Code, that use was fraught with problems when combined with the Java on VS Code dev team's tooling. Now, Microsoft has cleaned things up and is ...