Sir Garlon writes:
"Oracle released version 8 of the Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 to general availability on Wednesday, March 19, 2014. (A release candidate has been available since January 2014.) The release notes include a long list of security improvements as well as support for lambda expressions."
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Friday March 21 2014, @06:06PM
I'm mainly a Java developer these days, and in general, I like the language, although they need to pick up a few features to reduce the boiler plate code that's required, although most IDE's will take care of most of it. There are places though, that absolutely scream for Lamda functions. As with most features, I think it will work out quite well as long as people don't abuse the FP aspects and use them where aren't the optimal solution for readability.