`Optional.of`, `List.of`, `Set.of`, `Map.of` (and `Map.ofEntries`), ...; this language is actually pretty settled into the JDK.

https://blog.joda.org/2011/08/common-java-method-names.html?... has some background into the logic of static factory naming, covering from() and of().

Indeed. “of” infected Java with the awful naming conventions imposed by java.time (and to a lesser degree java.nio) because “new” is a keyword and doing “newThing” instead was not in vogue. Now it smacks of the worst kind of hipster disease and is going to enter java.lang for no good reason at all. What’s wrong with “newPlatformThread” or something similar? This shouldn’t have survived the initial sniff test.