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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by lightgreen on Sunday November 17, 2019 @10:25AM (#21558302)
> there's no reason anyone should need to target Java 6 bytecode and APIs in 2019

Java 7 byte code was a big mistake. People complained but Oracle didn’t listen. As always.

http://chrononsystems.com/blog/java-7-design-flaw-leads-to-h...

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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by pjmlp on Monday November 18, 2019 @02:21AM (#21562506)
Yet everyone else on the Java world doesn't have an issue having up to date Java implementations.
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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by lightgreen on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:42AM (#21581881)
IDE, debuggers, bytecode libraries, build systems, profilers, all of them had to deal with “up to date Java implementations”. Which hurts adoption.

Not just because of this issue, but because of tons of other mistakes made by Oracle: users shouted, Oracle ignored.

The net result is inertia is high, but Java is stable declining. Existing projects continue to be developed in Java, new projects often choose something else.

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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by monocasa on Monday November 18, 2019 @12:51PM (#21566389)
That's not true. BD-J is limited similarly for instance.

They forked the shit out of it too with tons of base functionality being in org.dvb. and javax.tv.

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