there’s a lot of good stuff in java 8, that I didn’t quite realize. I’m going to be more than happy to remove guava and joda time as dependencies, even though they are exceptional libraries.
Wow, this is surprising. I haven’t paid attention to Java development for awhile (since it has moved so slowly), but what they are adding seem to be solid improvements. Looks like with the functional interfaces, method references, and lambdas, they are finally making Java “multi-paradigm”, although it will be an odd beast since the functional programming constructs feel “bolted on” to the class-oriented constructs. Nonetheless, a lot of these additions will make a lot of Java code much cleaner, and reduce a whole lot of boilerplate that plagues the language today. And the inclusion of a JodaTime-like library is long overdue, and much needed!
there’s a lot of good stuff in java 8, that I didn’t quite realize. I’m going to be more than happy to remove guava and joda time as dependencies, even though they are exceptional libraries.
Wow, this is surprising. I haven’t paid attention to Java development for awhile (since it has moved so slowly), but what they are adding seem to be solid improvements. Looks like with the functional interfaces, method references, and lambdas, they are finally making Java “multi-paradigm”, although it will be an odd beast since the functional programming constructs feel “bolted on” to the class-oriented constructs. Nonetheless, a lot of these additions will make a lot of Java code much cleaner, and reduce a whole lot of boilerplate that plagues the language today. And the inclusion of a JodaTime-like library is long overdue, and much needed!