Other than cooperative threading: they are also adding a more versatile switch statement, with some form of pattern matching https://openjdk.org/jeps/441 https:

Other than cooperative threading: they are also adding a more versatile switch statement, with some form of pattern matching https://openjdk.org/jeps/441 https://openjdk.org/jeps/441 But it still falls short of deconstruction patterns of Scala, though that is something that they want to do in the future (see 'Future Work' section) i think that Scala is driving a lot of progress: (for example java adopted streams, probably inspired by Scala)