JavaFirehose

Amen brother!

Getting things done is not that hard. I don't need a burn down chart and some dude with a Dilbertesque PHB role to do my job effectively. I view anyone waxing on about so-called agile in the same light as those who speak of synergistic paradigm shifts in innovation etc.

I can define a resource management method which accepts any object which belongs to a class that provides a close method irrespective of whether that class implements close as part of an an interface or not.

It's a much needed cleanup of something that's always resulted in clutter in my code. C# has had this feature for over a decade. Nice to see Java adding this since I have a lot of Java code to maintain. Like a lot of Java devs we're switching over to Scala for new projects and using vanilla Java for legacy code. Automatic resource management can be implemented trivially in Scala without the need for a new language feature to support it. Structural subtyping is awesome!