At Devoxx Belgium 2025 I discussed the idea of embedded records with a few people. The idea is to take what is great about records, and extend that to classes that represent data.

This responds to a pain point in Java, where there is a bit of a cliff-edge between records and classes. While millions of classes could and should be converted to records, millions more cannot. Yet they still represent data, and it would be a Good Thing to be able to capture that. Especially with Serialization 2.0 on the horizon.

Please see the proposal document for more details.