It doesn't say much. This survey will likely be picked up by Java news sources and read by Java devs, since there don't seem to be many surveys geared towards J

It doesn't say much. This survey will likely be picked up by Java news sources and read by Java devs, since there don't seem to be many surveys geared towards Java devs these days. Maybe some of them will check out Scala. Why would the company most behind Scala post a very positive survey about Java? One would think that Scala's success probably relies on either replacing or supplementing Java. The only item that would be rather newsworthy would be the plans to adopt 8, but as you mentioned the survey doesn't provide a clear answer. My takeaway was that the most interesting new feature for people was lambdas, and Scala already offers lambdas. This could be interpreted as "Survey respondents are most excited about a Java feature that they could already have if they used Scala".