Benjamin Winterberg

Thanks for your hard work here! Side note: http://winterbe.com looks quite similar to angel.co. Or does angel.co look quite similar to your website? :-)

As someone who originally would have strongly agreed with you, I think there is actually huge benefits to thinking in this "streaming" mindset. That is, the first place I really encountered code like this was when Java introduced streams [1]. I wasn't used to programming like this when I first experienced this code, and at first I found it harder to read; it felt obfuscated. As I got more used to it, though, I started to love it. There are tons of operations in programming like this, where you're really just performing a successive series of transformations on a set of data. Obviously functional programmers are familiar with this, but this is also the paradigm for shell programming, where you're just piping stdout to the next small little program in the chain. The thing is, now I really feel a bit of a "switch" in my brain when I read code like this. That is, whenever I see this, I'm just like "OK, doing a whole bunch of data processing from some input set to a final output". Over time, when done correctly, I actually find this easier to read, with less verboseness, because my brain already has tons of context about what's going on. 1. Some Java streams examples, https://winterbe.com/posts/2014/07/31/java8-stream-tutorial-examples/

Here are some resources I've found helpful and have read or are on my backlog to catch up with these developments: - https://github.com/wesleyegberto/java-new-features (terse, includes links to JEPs, good jumping off point) - https://github.com/winterbe/java8-tutorial (quick tour through features of Java 8) - https://winterbe.com/posts/2018/09/24/java-11-tutorial/ (same for Java 11) Books: - Java 8 in Action / Modern Java in Action (Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Alan Mycroft, Mario Fusco; 2014 and 2018 respectively) - The Well-Grounded Java Developer (Martijn Verburg, Benjamin Evans, Jason Clark; 2022) - not specifically focused on new features but does cover them in the context of going deeper into Java and the JVM.

I wrote a user friendly version of the release notes. Maybe this is useful to someone: https://winterbe.com/posts/2018/09/24/java-11-tutorial/

I've spent the past 4-5 days going over and over this page: http://winterbe.com/posts/2015/04/07/java8-concurrency-tutorial-thread… Talks about some other useful topics as well. It's probably not news to everyone, but the third part covers a fair bit of CM/CHM.

As of Java 8, the Nashorn JavaScript engine is included by default, and it does support JSON parsing. [1] http://winterbe.com/posts/2014/04/05/java8-nashorn-tutorial/

Yeah, I can't imagine why someone would want to write stuff that looks like this. http://winterbe.com/posts/2014/07/31/java8-stream-tutorial-examples/

Start with this: http://winterbe.com/posts/2014/03/16/java-8-tutorial/

For those who may not have seen it, here's a good primer/tutorial for Java 8: http://winterbe.com/posts/2014/03/16/java-8-tutorial/