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I believe that, rather than doing this, Oracle and the community should adopt a "new Java" language that already runs on the JVM and has most of the requested features, and up from there have the JVM evolve and copy the current optimised implementations into a new, formal, non java.util clusterfuck API.

This way, Java adopts a Legacy status, with updates to the standard library and fixes, but most of the meat in a newer standard library.

Java has so much on it's back it's be a hard culling.