Language / Library / VM co-evolution in Java SE 8

I've seen Brian Goetz do several technology summaries at the JVM Language Summit, but this is the first fully realized vision of what "lambda" means to Java 8.

I quoted lambda because the feature may not satisfy everyone's definition of the word - functions are still not first-class and lambdas bind values not variables - but that isn't meant to be critical. What Brian et al have designed is a version of inline functions suited for the age of concurrency, and a complete ecosystem around them. The feature set well-described here extends Java and the standard libraries in important ways while preserving both language and library compatibility for Java's enormous legacy code base.

76 slide slidedeck dated 2011-11-17. Haven't paged through it, yet.

Google Docs Viewer, for the PDF avoidant: http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.oracle.c...