I would totally agree on that one. (Especially as have 20 years of legacy code
reliant upon JDK8.
Dave Irving
On Thursday, 27 February 2020, 07:59:54 GMT, Geertjan Wielenga
<geert...@apache.org> wrote:
I think we may be a bit too eager to drop JDK 8. :-) Bear in mind that
would leave us supporting only one LTS release of the JDK, i.e., JDK 11.
Gj
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 08:46, Jan Lahoda <lah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Two comments:
> -I know some people that have NetBeans platform application, and target JDK
> 8. I hope they'll comment here.
> -regarding JDK 11 and (nb-)javac - while the Java editing using JDK 11's
> javac is possible, I think it still leaves a lot to be desired (for
> example, IIRC, there were some improvements to lambda error recovery in JDK
> 12, which improved at least Java code completion).
>
> Jan
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 2:13 AM Laszlo Kishalmi <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > What do you think about stopping support Java 8 as NetBeans runtime from
> > 12.1 and on?
> >
> > Neil mentioned it in the user's chat first regarding that we have issues
> > with nb-javac from time to time.
> >
> > As we know our mid term plan is/was to rely on javac tooling instead of
> > habing to maintain the nb-javac fork.
> >
> > Right now NetBeans run fairly well on standard javac, however when the
> > IDE is running on Java 8 we need the nb-javac.
> >
> > I think removing Java 8 support as runtime shall be not a big deal, it
> > would be a few thing less to worry about. During the 12.x cycle we could
> > perfect our stuff on Java 11.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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