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Michael Inden

In this blog, I will present the long-awaited syntax extension named Text Blocks. They simplify the definition of multi-line strings. These can now be written without tedious concatenations. Even better, you can also do without error-prone escaping, ...

Michael Inden

Modern Java Records

In this blog, I will present Records, one of my favorite features of modern Java. Records represent a simplified form of classes whose methods are implicitly derived from the attributes defined as constructor parameters. A record constitutes a collec...

Michael Inden

Modern Java Switch Expressions

In this blog, I will cover some improvements of switch. The old syntax dates back to the early day of Java, and its handling is a bit cumbersome. Let's look at the newer, slightly modified syntax for switch, called Switch Expressions. With it, case d...

Benjamin Ruschin

What Developers Can Learn from Indie Games

The beauty of the WeAreDevelopers World Congress is seeing developers from every corner of the industry come together and share their passion for programming. Back in summer 2025, at our Berlin World Congress, game legends John Romero (Doom, Quake) a...

Daniel Cranney

Remote, Hybrid, or In-Office: What’s Really Best for Developers?

Five years ago, in the midst of a global pandemic, it seemed like we were at the beginning of a remote work revolution. At a time of huge uncertainty and mass layoffs impacting every industry, hitting tech particularly hard, companies scrambled to ad...

Chris Heilmann

Micro Components - a different approach to a simpler component-based web

There has been a lot of heated discussion lately in the web community about component based development. One side argued that Web Components are a standard we should follow whereas others complained that they still lag behind in what frameworks offer...

Chris Heilmann

Dev Digest 124 - None like it hot

Today, we learn about the environmental impact of AI, how SafeTix isn't safe and why CSS can get you into jail whilst ECMAScript moves on.News and ArticlesIt is official, the AI summer is here. However, generative AI is also a climate disaster and Go...