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Java 8 Early Access Release Candidate Available

posted by Dopefish on Tuesday February 18 2014, @04:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the Coffee-or-IcedTea dept.

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.

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by siliconwafer on Tuesday February 18 2014, @07:18PM

    by siliconwafer (709) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @07:18PM (#1813)

    I went to college 10 years ago to become a computer engineer/scientist (degrees in both actually) at a pretty well-regarded school. I've worked in industry since then. Only recently have I really begun to understand "Functional Programming" and it has opened my eyes quite a bit. Maybe it's not only the concept of "Lambda functions" but a programming paradigm shift from Imperative to Functional. Everything I've done - in academia and industry - up to now has been in the Imperative world. Functional Programming is really, really cool, and I'm using it more and more regardless of the language I'm working in. I wish I'd been shown this back when I was in school... (or taken the time to learn a Functional language!)

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  • (Score: 1) by biff on Tuesday February 18 2014, @10:02PM

    by biff (170) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @10:02PM (#1961)

    Yeah, my exposure to functional programming has been pretty minimal as well -- worked through examples in an AI book in LISP and wrote a couple one-off scripts for GIMP in Scheme. There's certainly an elegance to it, and I'm thinking about learning Haskell to become a little more flexible.

    The problem is when I'm not programming for myself I'm already finding situations where I could either write "ideal" code or maintainable code, which worries me a bit about delving too deeply into another paradigm... but so far it feels like every new language has made me a more thoughtful programmer in the rest.