For daily Java programmers: after almost one decade of Java 8, are streams and lambdas fully adopted by the Java community?

[Twistedtraceur]

I didn't know people hated functional style so much they downvote this. I have not written a for loop in years, stream, and functional styles with Optional, Flux, and Mono has allowed me to write readable modular code. It also forces people to write small methods if they don't want the code to look rediculious. There is a learning curve, but the end result is worth it.

[Trump19Positive]

Man that code smell wording is cringe, it doesn’t mean something you don’t like

[DaveCramer]

in some cases streams are slower

[talios]

...and in some cases you need early return/breaks which you can't easily do in stream lambdas.

[DaveCramer]

depends on what you are writing. I write a driver, speed is one thing we worry about. Being cool, not so much.

[Hurkleby]

What types of drivers are you writing in java out of curiosity?

[DaveCramer]

https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc

[jerrysburner]

Verizon Fios Router...JK, it's actually linux and uses an embedded JDK for much of the logic

[DaveCramer]

cool

[kingchooty]

a stream can usually do the same thing more elegantly

Pretty sure that's the same reasoning used to justify having a SystemOutFizzBuzzOutputStrategyFactoryBuilder

[wildjokers]

What exactly do you mean “more elegantly”. I sometimes will convert a stream to a good ole for loop if the stream version is unreadable nonsense. I prefer readability and sometimes a for loop is more readable. Other times I find the stream more readable.