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Re:Scala 2.12 roadmap by mercurial on Saturday February 13, 2016 @01:36AM (#11092897)
> Java 8 already added lambdas, the optional type, and so on.

I think the best Java can hope for is "syntax as good as C#". I highly doubt Java will ever go for, say, pattern matching. Unfortunately, after the big efforts in Java 8, I don't see anything syntax-related planned for Java 9, so I guess Java developers are still in for a decade or two of autogenerated garbage.

Re:Scala 2.12 roadmap by pjmlp on Saturday February 13, 2016 @02:11AM (#11093010)
> I don't see anything syntax-related planned for Java 9

Just module declarations.

Many of the cool stuffs seem to be planned for Java 10. :\