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.

The Java language and virtual machine are almost two decades old, and while most developers would recognize the old and new models of Java as being related, there's no question that Java has changed ...

Many developers get intimidated when they look at all the new APIs that accept lambda expressions as arguments, and wonder how they’ll ever figure out which Java function to use and what the proper ...

That’s about to change. Not only are languages like Java or Python adopting more and more concepts from functional programming. Newer languages like Haskell are going completely functional.

Functional programming with Java Many developers don’t realize it, but it was possible to write functional programs in Java before Java 8. In order to have a well-rounded view of functional ...

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 ...