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Java has better support for non-OOP paradigms than Python does. Map, filter, and reduce are built into the language rather than exiled to an external library. It supports multiline anonymous functions, and it has block scoping, so there are fewer surprises when using them. Java also has record types, exhaustiveness checks in pattern matches via sealed interfaces, built-in types for managing effects and errors (Optional<>, Try<>, Result<>), and type inference. It also has excellent interop with multiple programming languages where pure functional programming is idiomatic. It's a way more comfortable language in which to do FP than Python is.