Hello Matthias.

so 9. 10. 2021 v 17:56 odesílatel Matthias Bläsing <
[email protected]> napsal:

> Am Samstag, dem 09.10.2021 um 10:38 -0500 schrieb Eric Bresie:
> > Frgaal (1) does seem an interesting beast.


> IMHO2: we only gain syntactic sugar.

No, not at all. We'd get the ability to code against JDK11, 12, 13, 14, ...
APIs while running the build on JDK8. To quote the website:

> With such a change the compiler of your project no longer depends on the
used JDK.
> All the compiler code is downloaded from Maven central and it can run on
anything from JDK8 up.
> ....
> no matter what breaking changes appear in the JDK,
> your project is still going to compile into exactly the same `.class`
files.

That's far more than just a "syntactic sugar". It simplifies the CI!
-jt

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