On 4/2/23 06:38, Jaroslav Tulach wrote:
I can imagine that. However we are not coding NetBeans to please ourselves, but to please our users. NetBeans Platform users need JDK8 support. That's why I am volunteering to maintain and run the CI & tests on JDK8.
Well, that's not true. I'm in the game as NetBeans is my hobby and I enjoy working with the community and creating something that's fun/useful for me. I'm not really in this for the users, but if I contribute something that they like it's a win-win. (I guess no-one really needed ANTLR editing support besides of me.)
It's not that frequent, I do some coding besides of NetBeans usually on JDK 17. While I still learns something new on Java 8 here from the community. I started to feel that uncomfortable (I was missing Map.of(...) the other day).
It would be good to have some new younger contributors as well, though if we are looking like a bunch of old hippies still riding a flower painted old Volkswagen hippie bus...
I think NetBeans Platform users have plenty of JDK8 support from NetBeans 8.0 -> NetBeans 18. If anyone would like to keep that dream alive and release occasional JDK8 releases within the Apache project of forked, they are free to do that.
In some of our tests that fails on Java 11+ (probably Java 9+), happens as the default GC behaves differently. It is solvable, though again it's a burden.
We still do not know what is your very specific use case that requires NetBeans JDK 8 compatible beyond NetBeans 18...
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