Thanks for the correction vips7L. The main idea I wanted to convey is that with every release, Java keeps evolving and improving in the expressiveness and usability departments.
Yes, between GraalVM and the other projects you mentioned, it's very exciting times on the technical engineering front at Oracle, especially for Java and the JVM.
Getting performance increases for free (as in, no code changes required) by swapping JRE implementation is pretty schweet.
