Status

Current state: "Under Discussion"

Discussion thread:

JIRA: 

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The other side of the coin is that Java 8 adds a number of compelling features: 

• Lambda expressions and method references (particularly useful for the Kafka Streams DSL)

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• Lots of improvements to java.util.concurrent (CompletableFuture, DoubleAdder, DoubleAccumulator, StampedLock, LongAdder, LongAccumulator)

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• Other nice things: SplittableRandom, Optional (and many others I have not mentioned)

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