> I doubt that's what Oracle is shooting for My guess is that they're not trying to win over people from other languages with these features, but rather to not

> I doubt that's what Oracle is shooting for My guess is that they're not trying to win over people from other languages with these features, but rather to not give Java people a reason to move to other languages. Why move (legacy and lock-in aside), when Java has the features you're considering moving elsewhere to get?