Functional programming with Java Many developers don’t realize it, but it was possible to write functional programs in Java before Java 8. In order to have a well-rounded view of functional ...

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java ...

As Java evolves, the syntax continues to add increasing support for programming and functional programming language semantics.

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift in the software world over the past 10 years. Slowly but surely, it has moved from a niche feature of a few uncommonly used languages to a ...

There are over 40 functional interfaces listed in the java.util.functions package, which can make the prospect of functional programming in Java a somewhat daunting task.

That’s about to change. Not only are languages like Java or Python adopting more and more concepts from functional programming. Newer languages like Haskell are going completely functional.

Pattern matching and enhanced switch statements are also nudging Java closer to functional programming languages in expressiveness.