Why should it be in the future. The syntax of .stream() has been awfully verbose since Java 8: in the middle of “.stream()….collect(toList())”, you need to squi

Why should it be in the future. The syntax of .stream() has been awfully verbose since Java 8: in the middle of “.stream()….collect(toList())”, you need to squint to find the actual function name being applied between the flood of polluting calls, which loses the appeal of functional programming. In my company we have f(list).map(…), which is a wrapper for the streams. But newcomers don’t like it because it’s not the standard.