> A completable future is something that in the future may complete. I think that's self explanatory. But not the reason for the name :). It's called "complet

> A completable future is something that in the future may complete. I think that's self explanatory. But not the reason for the name :). It's called "completable" because these futures have a method on them `future.complete("value")`. Before their introduction, there was a `Future` API that java had.