Everything about Java 8
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Everything about Java 8
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#2This looks very thorough. I appreciate the detailed coverage of lambdas as well-- this is already helping my understanding.
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#3I'm excited by Java 8 moreso than at least several of the previous versions. Java 7 was especially underwhelming.
The lambdas are the new hotness that everyone is aware of. But the work done on streams is almost equally impressive.
There are several other small additions and reductions in pain that, when taken as a whole, make this update significant. For example, we finally will have a native JodaTime-like replacement for Calendar, Date, and the supporting utilities. I've long considered the need to enforce external thread safety on DateFormatters to be one of the silliest design failures in Java.
Disclosure: this summary was written by a colleague of mine.
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#4Streams, lambdas and the new time API are wonderful additions to Java.
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#5As a daytime Java developer who dabbles in Scala on the side, these changes look great. The inclusion of a Joda Time style time library is long overdue as well.
I just wonder how many years before there's adoption from the general Java community.
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#6Incomplete lambda forms? Facepalm.
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#7I'm excited by Java 8 moreso than at least several of the previous versions. Java 7 was especially underwhelming. The lambdas are the new hotness that everyone is aware of. But the work done on streams is almost equally impressive. There are several other small additions and reductions in pain that, when taken as a whole, make this update significant. For example, we finally will have a native JodaTime-like replaceme…
I am hacking a while now with java 8 and can say that one of the most appreciated features in my stack are lambdas. as soon as you are used to them (had the first introduction to lambda-style programming with Blocks in ObjC) you miss them so badly when they are not there (C for example).
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#8Language and api wise these are nice additions, but all I can think about these days is emscripten. The JVM should support the client side out of the box, why oh why didn't Google buy Java?
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#9I recently started developing in Java and the thing I find most irritating is the lack of operators overload.
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#10The only thing I wish made it in for 8 was coroutines(MLVM project).