Functional Programming in Java - Gateway Drug or End Of Line?

Joint Event with the Cork Java User Group

Very special thanks to our sponsors for this event, Instil (http://instil.co/)

We are delighted to welcome a very special guest down from Belfast, Garth Gilmour, who will be presenting this talk with hands on coding examples.

The most interesting topic in the JVM space is whether the features added to Java 8/9 will ensure its supremacy by killing newer languages (Scala, Kotlin, Clojure etc...) or act as a gateway drug to hasten its demise. In this presentation Garth will set out several case studies, drawn from different areas of development, with implementations in both Java and Scala and invite you to make up your own mind. Please bring IntelliJ, plus as many prejudices as possible and we promise you an entertaining evening of good natured debate and functional coding.

About Garth

Garth Gilmour gave up full time development back in 1999 to teach and mentor full time. Since then he's delivered well over a thousand courses and workshops to all kinds of programmers from all kinds of backgrounds. He started teaching C++ to C coders, then Java to C++ coders, then C# to Java coders and now teaches everything to everybody, since we work in an industry pathologically incapable of making up its mind. Although self employed for most of this career he came to roost five years ago as 'Head of Learning' at Instil. When not at the whiteboard he coaches Krav Maga, lifts heavy weights and fights nerf wars with his kids.