In a variety of venues, the application of declarative programming practices and principles are starting to expand in ways that solve many long-standing frustrations with making technology work ...

A new model of declarative programming languages has emerged for building infrastructure as code, promising more simplicity and safety than imperative languages. In the last dozen years or so, we’ve ...

Declarative programming languages have higher levels of expressionand abstraction than most other programming paradigms. Not only does declarative programming reduce source code — it also prevents ...

Declarative programming is a programming paradigm characterized by describing the target state (or even just the problem itself in some cases) as opposed to specifying the concrete steps needed to ...

Some network teams are finding power and simplicity in the shift from telling devices what to do, using imperative programming, to describing what they should be, using declarative programming.

Programs traditionally consist of a series of statements describing how to solve a problem. Declarative programs instead describe what problem to solve and what a solution would look like. The program ...

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming ...