[mreinhold]

No, JVM enhancements will not be limited to LTS. If anything it's best to merge them long before an LTS, so that they're well-baked in the LTS itself.

[virtualwhys]

My point is that "smaller" features like pattern matching and data classes will land in Java well before big ticket items like value types; not that JVM enhancements will be strictly limited to LTS.

Of course, you have the inside word: when are value types coming to the JVM? Hopefully by Java 10.

[aardvark179]

Minimal value types will arrive as an experimental feature at the VM level real soon now, language and library support will take a lot more work.

[hugi]

Giggidy!