Project Valhalla's JEP 401 will bring value classes to JDK 28, removing object identity from Java types in a 197,000-line change twelve years in the making ...
Don't hold your breath, though – architect Brian Goetz warns devs it will likely still be preview in next LTS release ...
Project Lombok is a small library that can be used to reduce the amount of boilerplate Java code that is commonly written for Java classes. Project Lombok does this via annotations that can be added ...