> Maybe Java will adopt these things in say 5 years - but why would you want to wait 5 years for them? Exactly. I'm an Android developer and while I have foll

> Maybe Java will adopt these things in say 5 years - but why would you want to wait 5 years for them? Exactly. I'm an Android developer and while I have followed the latest OpenJDK developments on Android with interest, I don't really care much because I and my organization have already switched over to Kotlin. And since mixing Java and Kotlin files is so easy, everybody can do the transition at their own pace (we're still in the transition phase so our engineers are allowed to keep using Java if they so prefer but most of them have already switched 100% to Kotlin and they are not looking back). It's a bit annoying to review code that mixes Java and Kotlin but it's temporary and I predict than in just a few months, the whole organization will be 100% using Kotlin. I suspect that by the time Android fully supports Java 8, we won't really care about it any more.