Hello everyone,

Today we’re diving into a Java topic that causes headaches for many developers, especially at the beginning: The Comparing strings using the == operator. You’ve probably heard that strings are always with you .equals() should compare. But then why do the following tests …

A few months ago I had a short discussion in a merge request with an experienced developer who asked me that’s why asked to undo my refactoring because == was easier to read.

Motivation

Even in this day and age, when storage is comparatively cheap, it can still make sense to have it not to be wasted. We were looking for a comparatively cheap alternative within our project, to give a data set additional information that we display within the frontend, i.e. we have to …