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Google made their Java fork, for Java 7 and 8 they only cherry picked features, even after migrating to OpenJDK.
The newly introduced bytecodes are not supported and the situation will only get worse with Java 9 and the new OpenJDK release schedule.
Specially given the lack of updates across the Android eco-system.
So only something like Kotlin allows to enjoy modern JVM languages while targeting Android.
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Google made their Java fork, for Java 7 and 8 they only cherry picked features, even after migrating to OpenJDK.
The newly introduced bytecodes are not supported and the situation will only get worse with Java 9 and the new OpenJDK release schedule.
Specially given the lack of updates across the Android eco-system.
So only something like Kotlin allows to enjoy modern JVM languages while targeting Android.