I appreciate your conundrum. While it has been good to see Java language designers attempt to advance the language, they've been extremely conservative and non

I appreciate your conundrum. While it has been good to see Java language designers attempt to advance the language, they've been extremely conservative and non-committal. This is a problem because tooling is costly to develop and tool developers are forever facing the problem of whether to invest the work needed to integrate these language features when they take years to be realized, and may yet vanish. Likewise for authors, such as yourself.