Thanks for bringing this up. I am actually very excited about these features, but they are still not quite available for most of us Java devs yet. The LTS versi

Thanks for bringing this up. I am actually very excited about these features, but they are still not quite available for most of us Java devs yet. The LTS version that contains them doesn't release until September, and it will take months (if not years) for many shops to upgrade. My critique was more targeted to the Java of the time period this article was written in (2014), but these new additions are another point for the "Just write it in Java" folks.