Lambda isn't syntactic sugar, it's a language feature. In Java it's kind of a syntactic sugar (lambda is a shortcut for an anonymous class with 1 method) becau

Lambda isn't syntactic sugar, it's a language feature. In Java it's kind of a syntactic sugar (lambda is a shortcut for an anonymous class with 1 method) because of historic reasons, but I'd prefer if it wasn't the case TBH. It was always a dirty hack.