Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The biggest language change packaged with the Java 10 release, aka JDK 18.3, was the ...

An initializer that makes complex class initialization possible. A class block initializer consists of the static keyword, an open brace character, initialization code, and a close brace character.

Everything in Java is an object, except primitives like int. Turns out that small caveat has big implications for the language, which have compounded over the years. This seemingly minor design ...