Sadly, since the talk was recorded in 1998 only generics have been added to Java. In addition, generics based on erasure may have been added as a wart that can

Sadly, since the talk was recorded in 1998 only generics have been added to Java. In addition, generics based on erasure may have been added as a wart that can't easily be removed. Happily, John Rose recently posted a proposal on how value types and tuples might look when added to Java: https://blogs.oracle.com/jrose/entry/value_types_in_the_vm https://blogs.oracle.com/jrose/entry/value_types_in_the_vm