🛑️ Stop Using Try-Catch: Java 25 Pattern Matching for Errors

Stop Using Try-Catch: Java 25 Pattern Matching for Errors

Stop throwing exceptions in Java and start treating errors as data! Learn how Java 25's sealed interfaces, records, and pattern matching create type-safe error handling WITHOUT any external libraries. \

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🎯 What You'll Learn:
• Why traditional try-catch blocks make code harder to test and maintain
• How to use sealed interfaces to model error types explicitly
• Creating type-safe Result types with Java records
• Pattern matching in switch expressions for clean error handling
• Exhaustiveness checking - let the compiler catch missing cases
• Real-world examples using ONLY Java 25 features (zero dependencies!)

⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 - The Problem with Throwing Exceptions 🛑️
01:47 - Exceptions and Performance ⏩️
05:09 - Benchmark Results
06:22 - It's even WORST 😱️
09:55 - Typical Try-Catch pattern
17:02 - About HTTP & cURL errors
18:25 - What's the ERROR's contract?
20:05 - Error Types as Data
22:30 - Vanilla Java + Vanilla Result 🍦️
11:00 - JVM's Safepoints?
14:45 - Better Practices ✅️
24:00 - The Magic 🪄️
25:09 - 3 Paradigm Shifts
27:25 - Building Result Types with Records
28:10 - Before and After
29:10 - map and flatMap
30:49 - Not only for Errors
32:15 - Result 😉️

💡 This modern Java approach makes your code more predictable, easier to test, and forces you to handle edge cases explicitly - all without adding a single dependency to your project!

✨ Java 25 Features Used:
• Sealed interfaces (type-safe error hierarchies)
• Records (immutable data carriers)
• Pattern matching for switch (clean error handling)
• Exhaustiveness checking (compiler-enforced completeness)

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📚 Official Resources:
• JEP 409 - Sealed Classes: https://openjdk.org/jeps/409
• JEP 441 - Pattern Matching for switch: https://openjdk.org/jeps/441

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