[dkarl]

At second glance it looks like you're right. When they say "add support for Java 8 language features directly into the current javac and dx set of tools" I read that as directly adding Java 8 language support into the javac already in the toolchain, but the comment bitmapbrother quoted links to a tool that operates on Java 8 bytecode[1]. I guess they are adding Java 8 bytecode translation as a part of dx or as a build step between javac and dx.

If they aim to translate all valid Java 8 bytecode (and not just classes emitted by javac) then the situation is at least as good as we would have got with Jill.

[1] "Command-line tool to desugar Java 8 constructs that dx doesn't know what to do with, in particular lambdas and method references." https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/blob/master/src/tools/an...