Typesafe surveyed more than 3000 Java developers, asking about upgrade plans to Java 8, key features of Java 8 and sentiments on lambdas. A report by Typesafe, the company responsible for the development and support of the Scala language for the JVM, shows that the platform does not seem to suffer the same slow adoption of previous Java versions. Java 8 shows signs of rapid adoption since its launch. Typesafe CTO and Akka creator Jonas Bonér