Comment by quilombodigital

I am an old school java developer. Can someone explain me why this is a "feature"? I can remember by counting my fingers the times I had to use "instanceof", and it was some classical reflection/injection/instantiation framework 'vodu'. If you are using instanceof in a normal java program, you are just making it wrong. It looks like some new javascript guys arrived in the block and are trying to make java look something messy like Scala. What real world problem is this trying to solve? Are you just fucking bored because you are all out of ideas and every JDK release we need "something"? Why these JEPs only have "boxes,rectangles,A,B,I" class examples and not a simple real world class scenario? Why we need to make java "friendly" to work with generic objects? it should be hell! I cant wait for JDK 50.