Java 8 was a huge step backwards from what existed prior.
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@dibblego I'm confused... lambdas were added in 8, and that was... bad?
@pelotom Lambdas were added in Java 7, in 2008, and they were better than what exists today. Hundreds more exmples like this.
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@dibblego I'm not familiar with the earlier lambda proposal, how were they better? -
@pelotom http://web.archive.org/web/20090913031237/http://functionaljava.org/examples/ … fj.data.Option (2005) is far better than java.util.Optiona (Java 8). - Show replies
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