Functional Data Structures in Java 8 with Javaslang

Java 8’s lambdas (λ) empower us to create wonderful API’s. They incredibly increase the expressiveness of the language. Javaslang leveraged…

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Functional programming for Java: getting started with Javaslang

Java is an old language and there are many new kids in the block who are challenging it on its…

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Beware of Functional Programming in Java!

This isn’t going to be a rant about functional programming, which is awesome. This is a warning about some practices…

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Stack safe recursion in Java

In this article, excerpted from the book Functional Programming in Java, I explain how to use recursion while avoiding the…

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Comparing Imperative and Functional Algorithms in Java 8

Mario Fusco’s popular tweet impressively shows what the main difference between imperative and functional approaches to similar algorithms really is:…

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How to use Java 8 Functional Programming to Generate an Alphabetic Sequence

I’ve stumbled upon an interesting Stack Overflow question by user “mip”. The question was: I’m looking for a way of…

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From Imperative to Pure-Functional and Back Again: Monads vs. Scoped Continuations

This post accompanies this video and won’t make too much sense without it Last month I gave a talk at the…

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Functional Programming in Java 8 with Javaslang

We’re very happy to announce a guest post on the jOOQ Blog written by Daniel Dietrich, Senior Software Engineer at…

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Java 8 Friday: More Functional Relational Transformation

In the past, we’ve been providing you with a new article every Friday about what’s new in Java 8. It…

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