Sunday, July 28, 2013

Java 8 and Eclipse

I want to start using Java 8, (early access here http://jdk8.java.net/download.html ), mostly because I like using closures (aka lambda expressions) http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/lambdaexpressions.html.

First you need a supportive IDE; apparentyl Eclipse (pueah) is not ready yet, but you can try e(fx)clipse:
http://downloads.efxclipse.org/eclipse-java8/2013-06-30/

Netbeans doesn't seem ready yet, it has only experimental support for lambda.

IntelliJ IDEA version 12 seems so far the only "solid" IDE to offer support for Java 8.

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