RFR: JDK-8200083: Bump bootjdk requirement for JDK 11 to JDK 10 (original) (raw)

dalibor topic dalibor.topic at oracle.com
Mon Mar 26 12:20:11 UTC 2018

On 24.03.2018 03:13, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

But is using the latest Java features really so important for OpenJDK development?

Generally speaking, being able to use the latest features is important because they typically reduce cost of both development (short term) & maintenance (long term).

For a non-obvious example, having to support two ways of doing something because one way was deprecated and removed, but one is stuck with some old baseline where it still wasn't adds non-trivial cost to design, decision making, maintenance, etc.

cheers, dalibor topic

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