Brian Goetz talking a lot about functional programming using Java 8 at #jaxlondon.
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Pls ask what he thinks of nulls vs. Option. I dislike current impl of java.util.Optional RT
@hseeberger Goetz talking about FP using Java 8
@mariofusco @hseeberger On history alone, I doubt the Java guys are going to get anything useful no matter the amount of protest.
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@dibblego it means there will be room to develop a javaz lib ;) /cc@hseeberger -
@mariofusco@hseeberger see Functional Java c.f. Option. We did this years and years ago.
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@dibblego What really discourages me are comments like: "I understand FP but prefer not to use it" http://java.dzone.com/articles/no-more-excuses-use-null#comment-88649 … /cc@hseeberger -
@mariofusco@dibblego@hseeberger Ah, it's that time of day where I feel like shutting my head in a door.
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