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Java’s biggest language change in a decade is finally landing. It took 197,000 lines of code.

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 ...
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What you need to know about Java wrapper classes

Before we dive into what’s new with wrapper classes in Java 21, let’s do a quick review. Wrapper behavior was also refined as groundwork for Project Valhalla’s value types. Wrapper classes in Java 21 ...
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OpenJDK proposal would bring value classes and objects to Java

An OpenJDK proposal would preview value classes and objects in a forthcoming version of Java. The feature would provide Java class instances that have only final fields and lack object identity. The ...