[pron]

Java's development is still mostly not in the language (although some developers focus on language changes). Most of the improvements in recent versions were to GCs, low-overhead deep profiling, and general performance -- neither Python nor JS compete well in these areas. In addition, the upcoming JDK 14 has the jpackage tool which would make it easier to deploy desktop applications, and there's a lot of investment reducing warmup time (CDS), AOT compilation that appeals to some microservices and maybe mobile/WASM apps, easy FFI and native memory access that can help with machine learning (Panama) and, yeah, the REPL. What features would you like to see?