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 ...

Streams and lambdas are an incredibly useful way to work with Java’s collections. Functional programming is in general a great addition to the overall range of tools available to us in building ...

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 ...

There are only half a dozen classes you really need to master to become competent in the world of functional programming. The java.util.function package contains well over 40 different components, but ...

On May 23, 1995, a seemingly modest programming language called Java was released by Sun Microsystems. At the time, it ...

"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 ...

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 is not true of imperative where data is generally changeable and function outputs unpredictable. From imperative programming came the languages C, Java and Python, while functional ...

You see, we don’t get functional programming by starting with an imperative language and cutting off its legs. A purely functional subset of Java or C or Python would be miserable little languages.

Of course, it’s technically possible to write functional/imperative code in Java ... is that other programming languages are similarly strict in terms of their grammar and structure.