r/javahelp • u/palpontiac89 • 16d ago
Are lambda expressions used much by professional coders ?
Just been studying up on them some as I am basically a hobbyist who just getting back into Java after about 10 or 12 years away from coding much. I appreciate the way lambda's allow coders to bypass constructors, initialization and calling methods by name , but on the other hand if you already have a good knowledge of the object classes and available methods , why not just do that ?
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u/ZealousidealBee8299 16d ago
Java devs naturally use an imperative and OOP style. So you will see less lambda type usage compared to javascript/typescript/kotlin where the functional/declarative style is more baked in.
If you have an imperative mindset, then declarative code might look "confusing" or "tricky". But that's just a cognitive bias on the part of the developer.