[dikei]

The first issue is your second code is not Java (no await/async literal for Java yet)

The second issue is they're not completely equivalent. In the second case, you'd need extra memory for the `reentrantLock`, while `synchronized` works with any object. Furthermore, if you need to use `wait/notify`, then there need to be an extra `Condition` object to use in combination with the `ReentrantLock`. For sure, developers can rewrite most `synchronized` to use `ReentrantLock` and `Condition`, but javac won't do it automatically for you.

[skyde]

They could at least introduce a new language construct like await synchronizedAsync(lock) { // some code }

C# introduced:

       await foreach (int item in RangeAsync(10, 3))

       Console.Write(item + " "); // Prints 10 11 12

So you dont have to type:

IAsyncEnumerator<int> e = RangeAsync(10, 3).GetAsyncEnumerator();

  try {

    while (await e.MoveNextAsync()) Console.Write(e.Current + " ");

  } finally { 

    if (e != null) await e.DisposeAsync(); 

  }