I maintain that that lull between 1.6 (2006) and 1.7 (2011) did a large amount of harm to Java. Changing too fast is bad; stasis is also bad. They've played cat

I maintain that that lull between 1.6 (2006) and 1.7 (2011) did a large amount of harm to Java. Changing too fast is bad; stasis is also bad. They've played catch up pretty well with features that proved themselves useful in other languages quite well in recent years, but it really fell behind over that five year stretch.