nobbis writes "Java 8 Early Access Release Candidate Available. Early Access Release Candidate 2 was made available for download last week. Lambda Functions and a new Date Time API are major features of Java 8, with some lesser known performance enhancements, which are discussed by Drew Stephens in his blog Atomic Number Implementation. Oracle's head Java Evangelist Simon Ritter gives a run through of new features in this presentation to the Virtual Java User Group. Project Jigsaw has been delayed again and is now scheduled for release with Java 9."
The bug report looks healthy and Java 8 is due for release on March 17th -- St. Patrick's Day.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Desler on Tuesday February 18 2014, @12:47AM
New? Lambda calculus is nearly 80 years old and anonymous functions, aka "lambdas", have been around over 55 years in Lisp. It's only "new" to people who've never heard of Lisp.
(Score: 1) by biff on Tuesday February 18 2014, @12:56AM
I guess I meant "new hotness" as "likely to be seen outside of academia."
(Score: 3, Informative) by Desler on Tuesday February 18 2014, @09:43AM
Not true either. Many langauges have had them for near or over a decade. Java is simply far behind the time.