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 | Groovy    |  |
 | Go        | @antihax (2017/11) @bvwells (2017/12) |
 | Haskell   | |
-| Java      | @bbdouglas (2017/07) @JFCote (2017/08) @sreeshas (2017/08) @jfiala (2017/08) @lukoyanov (2017/09) @cbornet (2017/09) |
+| Java      | @bbdouglas (2017/07) @JFCote (2017/08) @sreeshas (2017/08) @jfiala (2017/08) @lukoyanov (2017/09) @cbornet (2017/09) @jeff9finger (2018/01) |
 | Kotlin     | @jimschubert (2017/09) |
 | Lua     | @daurnimator (2017/08) |
 | NodeJS/Javascript | @CodeNinjai (2017/07) @frol (2017/07) @cliffano (2017/07) |