It will be interesting to see if Java8 inspires a fresh look at the design approaches used in the Java world. So many of those over-architected Java designs are

It will be interesting to see if Java8 inspires a fresh look at the design approaches used in the Java world. So many of those over-architected Java designs are trying to solve lack of flexibility and expressiveness in the language. There's an opportunity now to keep the good and move on from the bad ... it's terribly unfortunate though that it's not clear if Android will ever properly update from Java6 syntax. If it doesn't a large amount of the Java ecosystem is never going to move on from there.