Java has evolved to contain much of “ML the good parts” such as that languages like Kotlin or Scala that offer a chance to be just a bit better in the JVM look less necessary
> Java has evolved to contain much of “ML the good parts”
Using these new features one can write very expressive modern code while still being interoperable with the Java 8 dependency someone at their company wrote 20 years ago.
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To defy it's reputation for verbosity, Java's lambda syntax is both terse and highly flexible. Sum and product types are possible with records and sealed classes. Pattern matching.