With Java 9 done, then, the natural question is, What is next? As you might expect, the engineers at companies such as Oracle, Red Hat, IBM, Azul Systems, and others have been thinking about this question even while Java 9 was being planned and developed. While it is next to impossible to say what Java 10 will hold with any certainty (remember it took three major releases to get the module system done), we do have several items that are currently being discussed and designed, with the hope of shipping them in the next release. Over the next few pages, we'll explore some of these to get an early look at what our life as Java developers might be like in a couple of years.
Looking forward
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