functional

Java was designed as a general-purpose programming language with class-based object-orientation at its core. With the release of version 8 in 2014, a more functional programming style became viable. This story tries to shed some light on the depth of functional programming possible.

With Java 8 came one of the greatest additions to Java: the Stream API. It made processing a stream of data very convenient by allowing us to chain operations together, lazily, and perform the actual data processing by ending a fluent call with a terminal operation.