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Episode 465: Kevlin Henney and Trisha Gee on 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know

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How to Use the Id E?

Most of my conference presentations are about how to use the i d e. The idea can help you read your code with things like type hints, both for a local verbal type inference and also for things like parameter names permeters that you pass methods. Refractoring tools mean that everything compiles. You don't have to re compile and fix things up afterwards. So refactoring is like one of my favorite things. And in particular, i like the fact that the inspections in intelligen idea will help you migrate to modern versions of java. New features which will be coming in java 16 include paternt records and switch blocks. These are all things which kind of get rid of

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