Why Developers Should Refactor to Java 8 Immediately
With the release of Java 8 on March 2014, developers where anxious to see the unveiling of the exiting things that the jdk team and the JCP community had put together to make development slightly smooth and exiting for all of us. From an honest point of view Java has been around for a while and its acceptance globally has been a thing of comfort to those of us who have made it our career. From web applications, mobile devices, printers, desktop applications to highly sophisticated mission critical systems, Java has proven indispensable, and extremely competitive to other programming languages in those realms. Java Jdk 1.0 was released in 1995, later followed by the release of the famous jdk 5 and jdk 7 in 2011. All of these version came with awesome features that made them worthwhile, but java 8 has come to give Java a permanent place in the world of software development as you will learn from this article. The main things that made the release of Java 8 such a big de...