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The Java world tends to be pretty conservative and slow-moving compared to newer, trendier languages.

So while it's been out for some time, a lot of enterprise code bases are only just now starting to move to Java 8, and developers are only now really getting their teeth into these sorts of features.

Also, Java 8 was a pretty huge release. Even experienced developers are no doubt discovering little new interesting features and tricks all the time.

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Google just finished moving most things to Java 8 a few months ago; I imagine other large companies are similar.

It can take a while to move to new major language versions, especially when they have major new syntax changes; toolchains and IDEs take a long time to mature. Java 4 -> was huge, 5->6 was very minor, 6->7 medium (string switch statements, try-with-resources, and multi-catch), but 7->8 is another huge change. My guess is that Java 9 will be accepted much quicker than 8, since its changes are not going to be nearly as big as 8.

> The Java world tends to be pretty conservative and slow-moving compared to newer, trendier languages.

newer, trendier languages like Python, Ruby or C++? ;)

He who uses Python 3 / C++14 in production may cast the first stone :P

throw stone{1_st};

edit: now with parameters and custom literals

I think there's a reason why you didn't mention Ruby 2.4.0. :-)

Just the fact I don't know enough about it to find an example :D

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