LINQ was one of the best things that happened to the .NET software engineering ecosystem in a long time. With its introduction of lambda expressions and monads in Visual Studio 2008, it had catapulted the C# language way ahead of Java, which was at version 6 at the time, still discussing the pros and cons of … Continue reading Does Java 8 Still Need LINQ? Or is it Better than LINQ?
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LINQ and Java
LINQ has been quite a successful, but also controversial addition to the .NET ecosystem. Many people are looking for a comparable solution in the Java world. To better understand what a comparable solution could be, let's have a look at the main problem that LINQ solves: Query languages are often declarative programming languages with many … Continue reading LINQ and Java