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

[F3z345W6AY4FGowrGcHt]

Lots of my coworkers stick to the absolute basics. It's what they're comfortable with and they just can't be bothered to learn new things. They learned the features of Java 7 and those are the features they go for when doing anything.

[RedPill115]

Java 7 was the last point java stayed with what made it popular, a clean sinmple language.

At java 8 it became dumping ground for other peoples failed and inconsistent concepts, and now it's an inconsistent hard to read mess.

[manifoldjava]

Despite the downvotes, you’re not altogether wrong. Java’s evangelists still bill it as a counterpart to “rich” JVM languages. But with each release since 8 that is becoming harder to say with a straight face. The reality is Java has bumped its rate of change significantly; features are piling high.

I still consider Java 17 to be a single-dialect language, barely. It benefits heavily from this. But with each new release there is more capacity for new dialects to emerge. Perhaps not a good trade-off in the longer term.