Java String Templates Proposal Is "Withdrawn"

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I tracked down more explanation in this message on the mailing list: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/amber-spec-observers/2024...

It sounds like they are intending to rethink the design and that it may return in a different form in the future, but won't be in JDK 23.

Thank goodness. My big problem was it basically redefined what a ton of conventions actually meant.

I do appreciate the efforts of the authors, but I just don't think the proposed syntax would be a good long term change for Java.

Well, I adopted String templating in one of my code bases. It seems it is stuck now in Java 22 :(

ope! You could extract them to files and just use a regular templating library, there are plenty of options that are pretty high performance.