Sep 24
In almost every discussion about the new closures proposal, I see a lot of people comparing closures to delegates, and/or complaining that just because C#/.NET has it, Java doesn’t have to follow. On the latter I will not remark; but regarding a comparison, let’s make a fair comparison between the two (considering, of course, that C#’s delegates feature is already on the market for a couple of years now, and Java’s closures are just a proposal at the moment).
Let’s start with the easy parts:
