[skwirl]

This is a pretty unimpressive list for 9 years of progress, and is merely a small subset of features Kotlin was already providing.

I left the Java world for the C# world around 2008 and then returned to the Java world last year. C#/.NET changed much more significantly much faster. Almost all of the significant differences in day to day life with respect to the Java language and standard libraries that occurred between 2008 and 2022 are due to changes introduced with Java 8.