After learning about streams and lambdas in Java 8, my style of writing code underwent a fundamental change. It reduced bugs in my code, got me thinking more in terms of functional programming, and best of all — it reduced the number of lines I had to write for any given functionality while making the code even more readable!
Yes, Java 8 has become quite old, but it's still the most popular Java version in use today. In this post we'll go through some Java 8 features and try to understand them. I find many of them really useful and thought it would be awesome to share them.
There is something called SOLID design principles in Object Oriented programming. It is said that an OO programmer should always know SOLID and apply them religiously in their daily life. We are going to take a look at the L in SOLID, which — like all the other principles — is widely misunderstood.
