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Everything About Java 8

Posted by Soulskill on from the building-a-new-generation-of-security-holes dept.

New submitter reygahnci writes "I found a comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8 including: improvements to interfaces, functional interfaces, lambdas, functions, streams, parallels, date/time improvements, and more. The article includes example code with realistic examples of use as well as explaining the reasoning behind some of the choices made by the developers who are working on Java 8."

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  1. That's pretty amazing... by benjfowler · · Score: -1, Troll

    Isn't it amazing how to the hottest stories Slashdot always appear on Hacker News 18 hours earlier?

  2. Java, is that still around? by markhahn · · Score: -1, Troll

    I suppose someone still makes buggy whips, so why not Java version N+1? at least some fraction of this shrinking niche will fail to recognize that programming "investment" is a sunk cost...

  3. Actual summary by slashmydots · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's a security nightmare, slow and bulky as hell, hard to code in, and horribly impossible to make cross-platform despite that being the point. Bye bye, Java. Good job shooting yourself in the foot.