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A comment on Oracle’s Java 11 trap. Parent comment

Re:Oracle’s Java 11 trap by carlmr on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:50AM (#18075377)
>Java also has a multi decade history of remaining backwards compatible across major version upgrades.

And Google has a history of starting and scrapping products without much attention to the remaining userbase. I'm not saying Go is one of these.

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Re:Oracle’s Java 11 trap by lclarkmichalek on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:58AM (#18075435)
Then what are you saying?
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Re:Oracle’s Java 11 trap by carlmr on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:18AM (#18076147)
That Go may or may not be a trustworthy foundation to build on for the future you can't say it yet, but Google isn't very trustworthy on this front, while for Java oracle has been very boring but stable.
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