The survey went out to largely a Scala audience (anyone signed up for the Typesafe newsletter). As a developer using mostly Scala with some legacy Java code to

The survey went out to largely a Scala audience (anyone signed up for the Typesafe newsletter). As a developer using mostly Scala with some legacy Java code to maintain I see various benefits to Java 8: 1) More enhancements to the core java libs that are more functional programming friendly for use from Scala. 2) Legacy Java code less painful to maintain. 3) Java programmers suddenly stopped calling $FEATURE evil, since Java now provides $FEATURE too (well for a small subset of Scala features anyway).