Five Features to Make Java Even Better

I stumbled upon this proposal by Brian Goetz for data classes in Java, and immediately realized that I too have a few ideas about how to make Java better as a language. I actually have many of them, but this is a short list of the five most important.

[image error]Idiocracy (2006) by Mike Judge

Global Variables. There are Singletons in Java, which, as we all know, are nothing but global variables. Wouldn't it be great to enable global variables in Java and get rid of Singletons. PHP, JavaScript, Ruby...