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Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by bobthepanda on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:33AM (#26821694)
IIRC wasn’t there a huge change in how APIs were exposed from 8 to 9 as well?
Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by pjmlp on Friday April 16, 2021 @02:17AM (#26830212)
Yes modules, but all the libraries in the Java eco-system that matter have long supported it, remember we are at Java 16 now.
Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by bobthepanda on Friday April 16, 2021 @11:25AM (#26835006)
That’s all well and fine for third party libraries, but less so if you work at some company with some internal framework or whatever using the old system still.
Re:Reasons to upgrade from Java 8 by pjmlp on Saturday April 17, 2021 @04:08AM (#26842506)
There are also companies still using Red-Hat Enterprise 5 in production with Java 4 (1.4), but I tend to avoid dealing with them as much as possible.