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Re:Prisoners of Google Android Development by pjmlp on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:43PM (#37285450)
> The JVM can still, today, execute and use classes targeting Java 1.0 (released in 1996

Only if you are lucky they don't depend on stuff that started being removed after Java 8, when deprecated for removal went into effect.

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Re:Prisoners of Google Android Development by cogman10 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:46PM (#37285488)
That stuff, to be clear, is stuff in `sun.misc.Unsafe`.

Plenty of libraries from that era didn't require unsafe code to accomplish their tasks.

I'm more than happy if google decides to break people who used non-public android apis.

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Re:Prisoners of Google Android Development by pjmlp on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:55PM (#37285556)
No it isn't, educate yourself on everything that has been removed until the upcoming Java 21, including several public APIs.

Just browse the JEPs and release notes.

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