[The_Colonel]

> In 2011, Java was on version 7. We're on 22 now in 2024.

In the IDE technology, the jump was even larger. In 2011, I was using Intellij 10, now I'm on version 2024.

> There have been some paradigm shifts in Java during that time. Streams (Java 8), Lambda expressions (Java 9), the var keyword (Java 10), Records (Java 14), switch and yield (Java 12/14), instanceof (Java 16).

The only listed Java feature which represented a paradigm shift was lambda expressions (which were released in v8, not v9), the rest are minor features.

[twic]

Streams had a pretty huge impact on how a lot of people write code.

Also, lambdas came in in 8, not 9. Streams without lambdas would have been pretty painful!

[layer8]

There were streams-like libraries before Java 8. It’s lambdas that made them more practical.