Java 8 looks good enough to make Java a reasonable candidate for Java.Next. Especially given that there doesn't appear to be a clear winner between the alternat

Java 8 looks good enough to make Java a reasonable candidate for Java.Next. Especially given that there doesn't appear to be a clear winner between the alternatives (Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Kotlin etc.). Java 8 seems to have borrowed a lot from Guava (Optional, Function, Predicate, Supplier etc.). Extension methods as well as default methods on interfaces would have been nice.