Salesforce Winter ’23 release highlights for Developers

Some quick Salesforce Winter ’23 release highlights for Developers:

Dataweave in Apex (Developer Preview) — The MuleSoft Anypoint data transformation language is a far better way to make data transformations than writing logic in Apex. This will both improve the quality of your code and probably reduce many lines of Apex as well: LINK

Intentional Asserts — Great to see Salesforce committed to keep improving the Apex language. Previous asserts were difficult to get right logically, and this will help developers a great deal: LINK

Code Builder — New cloud ability to do almost all Salesforce development on the Salesforce platform itself. This is the biggest new developer feature, although ambiguity around licensing costs means you should wait before planning to adopt this: LINK

LWC with CMS modules — LWC — even easier to pull CMS content into your custom Lightning controls: LINK

Retirement of API version to 30.0 — this has been announced for a while now, so hopefully not too many orgs will break. Keeping your API’s up to date is nevertheless not a task that usually gets much attention by developer teams, so a timely reminder that when you work on some code, always update the API version, even if there is no obvious benefit: LINK