Many other languages offer similar functional APIs for querying collections, here is C#'s 101 LINQ Examples rewritten in different languages: https://github

Many other languages offer similar functional APIs for querying collections, here is C#'s 101 LINQ Examples rewritten in different languages: https://github.com/mythz/swift-linq-examples https://github.com/mythz/kotlin-linq-examples https://github.com/mythz/clojure-linq-examples https://github.com/mythz/java-linq-examples https://github.com/mythz/dart-linq-examples https://github.com/omnibs/elixir-linq-examples http://templates.servicestack.net/linq/ Java 8+ has since improved with their Streams API. The primary benefit that differentiates LINQ apart is that you can easily capture the Expression tree of the LINQ expression and rewrite its intent to apply to other sources, commonly used in LINQ -> SQL to provide a Typed Expression API for generating equivalent SQL to run on an RDBMS.