"If you're a language nerd, like many people on our team, then Pattern Matching for instanceof is super exciting because it decreases the ceremony and the boilerplate and makes it so that you can do a test of an object and an assignment of an object in one line, as opposed to a couple of different lines, and you get rid of the casting of an object into a variable," said Arimura. He was equally effusive about Records as another mechanism to reduce unnecessarily verbose code. "What we like to say is Records represent the data is nothing but the data," Arimura explained. "Oftentimes, developers have hundreds of classes, even thousands, that just represent maybe data they want to persist to a database. And they have all this boilerplate in there... and all of that can be essentially replaced, and automatically created by the JVM, and we can reduce a bunch of boilerplate down to a single line, which is a