Screw them. Screw them to the 7th gate of hell.
They pushed the long awaited JSRs to Java 8.
Project Lambda
Invoke Dynamic
Native Collections Support -
Couldn't find the jsr link, will update later, i thought it was in project coin
Edit: Oh and, what an incredibly ugly way of doing type inference. I mean seriously, take a look at your other half (C#) and get a hint.