Are you a developer, Have you seen it?
Simon Ritter at the VirtualJug–> Project Lambda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Std4TEmBdTM
You should see it, and then talk to your boss. Lambda’s the thing that could convince your boss to finally update the JVM from anything lower then 8 to 8 !!! (If you convince him/her right)
ps A wild guess. The arrow sytax -> seems to be coming from PHP