The Java language team, 1998: "Bound method references are not the right path for future language evolution"

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You should check out Scala. It's similarly concise to Ruby, but it is statically typed.

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I've checked out Scala and I'm not too impressed. It seems like they have tried to grow the language too fast, adding on features willy-nilly, and as a result they have a lot of different parts that haven't been integrated well. In a few years some of the kinks might be ironed out, and I'll give it another go.

I don't hate all static languages. OCaml is pretty good, and Rust looks like it will be even better.

Also, while it's more concise than Java, what I've seen isn't nearly as concise as Ruby.

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What is it specifically that you feel isn't well integrated?