and the Streams API in Java Welcome back to this two-part tutorial introducing functional programming in a Java context. In Functional programming for Java developers, Part 1, I used JavaScript ...

Elliott Rusty Harold is blogging that functional programming in Java is dangerous. He’s wrong, and he’s way late to the party on this one–it’s coming to Java whether he likes it or not.

Java is transitioning into a functional programming language, introducing direct support for cloud computing and returning to its embedded-device roots, all at the same time. Already the world's most ...

If you want to master functional programming, the best place to start is with the Java Function interface. This example will show you four different ways to implement this functional interface in your ...

“Functional Programming in Java” is a new book written to help readers get on top of the new, essential Java 8 language features and the functional style that will change and improve your code. It’s a ...

Rust, a relative newcomer in the systems programming world, boasts many functional features. C++ and Java have been adding lambdas and other functional features for years. Many of the features ...

"This interesting snapshot of a sizable number of survey respondents suggests not only an intent to upgrade to Java 8 relatively quickly, but real interest in the new functional programming ...

The advent of Java 8 in particular added important features taken from functional programming idioms that make code shorter, more reliable, and more expressive. The details of Java’s history are ...

Lambda expressions, for example, only became part of Java with version 8 in 2014, long after functional programming had become mainstream elsewhere. In its early years (1995–2000s), Java ...