A Response to Ineffectual Java-NG Proposals

From TFA:

  // The point is... if you're going to invent a 
  // new Java that breaks compatability, then
  // at least try and fix some of the major issues 
  // like verbosity, invariants, inference, checked 
  // exceptions, and mutability.  Go wild.  Everything 
  // presented here could be compiled directly into Java.