Java is missing various “hot” features from languages like Scala or Kotlin, but luckily some of them can be recreated using existing features – sealed…
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Since there was some interest in seeing the same implemented in Java, in this article, we’ll see how we can implement the same Hamming encoder/decoder using Java and the Vavr library.
Previous articles from the series:
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In Java, the potential of lazy evaluation is quite neglected (actually, at the language level, it’s pretty much limited to the implementation of minimal evaluation) – advanced languages like Scala, for example, differentiate between call-by-value and call-by-name calls, or introduce dedicated keywords like lazy.
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While everyone’s busy with modularity, local-variable-type-inference, and other Next Big Things of recent JDK releases, there’s a fairly small and important update for the ForkJoinPool that deserves some attention.
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Kotlin’s Collections API is extremely versatile and expressive but there’s one important thing to be aware of especially when migrating from Java.
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Kotlin truly shines when it comes to avoiding excessive bureaucracy of classical Type-Driven approaches to optionality.
Let’s see how does its native approach to null-safety compare to java.util.Optional.
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Playing with multidimensional arrays and method references can be tricky sometimes.
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Java 8 got many things right and some not – apart from commonly recognized Java 8 caveats, there are a few which feel especially wrong.
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In this article, we continue where we left off and focus solely on error detection for Hamming codes.
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