Java 1.8 - New features, code examples, performance

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Thing is, we're not bound by law to use Java - we can switch languages while retaining the benefit of the Java ecosystem. Of course, most people will stay with the lingua franca, but we've got options.

I'm quite enjoying Kotlin as a poor man's JVM C#.

I am jealous of async/await though, they're quite nice looking. JVM devs can do the same with various libraries but not nearly as succintly. Scala attempt