Everyone’s talking about lambdas in Java 8, and rightly so. But here’s what I’m more excited about:
- Streams API: expressive, readable, and parallelizable
- Optional: finally formalizing null handling
- Method references: concise callbacks that read beautifully
Java’s catching up to what functional languages have done for years, but that’s okay. Maturity takes time.
This update made Java feel modern again. And I started rethinking my internal utility libraries accordingly.