Adding Elvis and safe navigation operators to Java was discussed before Java 7, over 10 years ago. Sadly they never made it even to the official proposal lists

Adding Elvis and safe navigation operators to Java was discussed before Java 7, over 10 years ago. Sadly they never made it even to the official proposal lists and with Optional introduced in Java 8 I don't think we'll get them any time soon. See also Brian Goetz opinion on that subject: https://youtu.be/FdkPHShh628?t=50m17s https://youtu.be/FdkPHShh628?t=50m17s