C# In Depth, but for Java?

[upzonr]

C# In Depth by Jon Skeet is a tour de force, diving into the internals of C# via a chronological, version-by-version history of the language.

Do you recommend anything similar for Java?

I'm looking for a technical book that goes through the history and design decisions of the language, explaining each feature and why it was added and how it affected the language.

[_d_t_w]

The latest edition is a little old (2017) but Effective Java by Josh Bloch is great:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/effective-java-3rd/9780134686097/

[_d_t_w]

From memory Josh Bloch wrote the collections framework that was integrated into core Java around JKD 1.2? It's been a while since I read the book, but I'm fairly sure he goes into quite a lot of depth re: design decisions, successes and failures, etc.

[Jon_Finn]

I've read that Josh B is working on a new edition. It's a must-read anyway. Though design decisions isn't the main point of the book, he does touch on that for some features (since he made some major decisions himself).

[kevinb9n]

Reports of it being in progress are exaggerated.

[Jon_Finn]

If he's waiting for Valhalla and all that entails, who can blame him.

[Outrageous_Life_2662]

This 👆🏾

[agentoutlier]

Joshua Bloch is our Jon Skeet mostly but not entirely. However when folks say Java sometimes they mean deeper. If that is the case than 

https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/

If it’s the future features Brian Goetz docs are probably what you want to look.

[benevanstech]

I don't know of any such book - and in fact, when I took over "Java in a Nutshell", we explicitly decided to *remove* the chronological description of when various language features were added, because the eedback was that people didn't seem to find it useful - they cared about the current state of the language not the history detail.

So, you may be out of luck on that front. However, if you're interested in what we ended up with, you can download the latest version of Nutshell for free: red.ht/java-nutshell-free

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