Does Java 8’s lambda capability make Scala obsolete?

How does using Java 8's lambdas compare to writing Scala?I didn’t think anyone would seriously ask this question. However, after yesterday’s post about why your company should let you use Scala at work, which used a simple example showing the use of lambdas in Scala, I had someone write in the comments:

“java 8 equivalent of your example would be identical, no need for Scala…”

and someone else commented on Twitter:

The call to compare against Java 8 is a fair one, so here we go… Continue reading

9 Design Patterns Translated Into Java 8’s Lambdas

LAMBDAS!

There’s been a lot of hype around lambdas getting introduced in Java 8, and I have a good theory on why: hype is often born out of anticipation, and we’ve been anticipating lambdas in Java for a LONG time.

Lambdas?

A lambda spray paint pattern, the same design as in Half-LifeThe funny thing is that lambdas don’t, by themselves, do anything new. They’re just a succinct form for turning a block of code into an object that can be passed around – syntactic sugar. Some of us have been doing this for a while without the succinctness and we call it… object-oriented programming! Yes, passing blocks of code (aka functions) around as objects (aka values) is also core to functional programming, but certainly not unique to it.

Patterns!

Somewhere that this idea of “passing code around” is heavily utilised is in Continue reading