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Hence why we have projects Valhala and Panama.

However bringing those features to Java and the JVM specification, while keeping existing code running, is a big engineering effort, which is why they are targeting Java 10+.

I would have like that back in those days, Gosling and his team would have taken the inspiration from Modula-3, Oberon, Component Pascal and many others.

But better later than never, and regarding Java 10 time frame, I am happy they aren't doing a Python break the world thing.