Also, if it hadn’t been (slowly) improving all this time then I would have defenestrated my work laptop, myself, or both long ago. I’m trying to imagine using

Also, if it hadn’t been (slowly) improving all this time then I would have defenestrated my work laptop, myself, or both long ago. I’m trying to imagine using it without the stream API just shuts my entire brain down. Records arrived pretty recently and are already essential for me. You will always have to pay me to program Java, but you’d have to pay me 5x my current salary to do it in Java 8 or earlier.