I would have liked them to standardize the way Maven/Gradle works and have support in the compiler and source code for them. Kind of like how Joda time inspired

I would have liked them to standardize the way Maven/Gradle works and have support in the compiler and source code for them. Kind of like how Joda time inspired the Java 8 time libraries. Encapsulation could have been handled by a Java agent. My guess is that it will have a bunch of bugs in it anyway that allows you to get around it just like the applet sandbox. Build tools would still have a place in the world for things unrelated to dependencies and compilation. Being able to write code that uses dependent modules without using some third party tool would drastically simplify using Java. As it stands things like JShell are basically useless without support like this.