Feature soup is kind of meaningless. The open source community has whatever it needs now.
Many "alot" of java programmers in the US cant code to JDK8 already. I love the JVM but these Java releases are not being adopted on any real scale for a reason. They break things. And syntax sugar is boring and unnecessary for a crew of software engineers that have no real ethos surrounding records or any of these features.
They are just being rolled out to appease devs from other ecosystems. They will not form a new or better method for building systems or improve performance.
Many "alot" of java programmers in the US cant code to JDK8 already. I love the JVM but these Java releases are not being adopted on any real scale for a reason. They break things. And syntax sugar is boring and unnecessary for a crew of software engineers that have no real ethos surrounding records or any of these features.
They are just being rolled out to appease devs from other ecosystems. They will not form a new or better method for building systems or improve performance.