With your explanation everything is just a shorthand. All you really need is NAND. Streams are a library feature, records are a language feature. Streams could

With your explanation everything is just a shorthand. All you really need is NAND. Streams are a library feature, records are a language feature. Streams could be implemented outside, records could not (no lombok abominations are not records). comparing braces to records/multi line strings/switch expressions is so funny that I won't even comment on that.