> 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 fo

> 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.