Comment by MarkMarine
3 days ago
I’m sure there are better ways to do streams on the JVM, scala being a great example, but however imperfect the implementation is streams are such a net positive I can’t imagine the language without them. I pine for the streams API when I write go.
I totally agree with the criticism about exceptions. If you need exceptions inside a stream it turns into a mess.
Overall I agree with you. They are significantly better, even if a little verbose, than not having them. Love cleaning up old loops with a tiny stream that expresses the same thing more compactly and readably.
He’s also right on the parallel benefits not really being a thing I’ve ever seen used.
I'm in agreement, too. The intersection of streams and exceptions was not pretty. Streams are still good, but the feature is a little ugly