Java's vision for the future

Just noticed this slideshow from QCon 2012 on the vision for Java's evolution over the next few versions.

Some highlights of JDK 8:

• closures via lambda expressions
• filter-map-reduce framework
• modules

and further out:

• JNI goes away!
• support for big in-memory data (arrays) and data structure optimizations

A key driver of these enhancements is the transition to multi-core and the end of the free performance lunch.  This is a great graph that puts it in perspective - those flat lines are the lunch bill arriving.

QCon always has excellent presentations, so I'm sure there's some other thought-provoking slideware on that site as well.