Java is one of the most searched programming languages according to Tiobe index for July 2016, where Java ranks number one. Its popularity is also seen on Livecoding, a social live coding platform ...

Lambda expressions are the biggest features integrated into Java 8. This functional programming paradigm was, until now, missing from Java. Its inclusion now will only help Java grow in the right ...

To find detailed practical examples of how you can benefit from these features refer to the book Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, Streams and Functional-style programming written by the authors of this ...

Twenty-year-old Java, despite being long in the tooth, is still the most popular programming language for developing enterprise applications. The TIOBE index, which is one measure of the popularity of ...

Looking back on Java’s evolution, he noted that features like lambdas, introduced in JDK 8, were ones he wished had been part of the language from the start.