Java 8 Features That Will Take Your Coding to the Next Level

Java 8, released in March 2014, brought some of the most significant changes and enhancements to the language, making it more modern, expressive, and easier to write functional-style code

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Lambda expressions enable you to write instances of single-method interfaces (functional interfaces) in a much more concise and readable way.

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Functional interfaces can be used as the target type for lambda expressions or method references

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The Streams API allows you to process sequences of elements (like collections, arrays, etc.) in a functional style

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Java 8 introduced default methods in interfaces, allowing interfaces to provide default implementations for methods

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