It replaces verbose anonymous inner classes.
Lambdas allow you to treat functionality as a method argument, or code as data. java environment 1.8.0
If you have ever typed java -version into a terminal and seen java version "1.8.0_xxx" , you might have done a double-take. "Wait," you thought, "I thought we were on Java 8?" It replaces verbose anonymous inner classes
Java 8 makes multi-threading easy by leveraging the ForkJoinPool. " you thought