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woo hoo. GA is currently estimated to be July 2017. i wonder when the Android ecosystem will support it.

• pjmlp 10y ago
  Looking how well it does support Java 6, 7 and 8, probably never. - Java 6 and 7, not all of the APIs are supported - Java 8, on top of not supporting all of the APIs, it doesn't support the new bytecodes and 100% of the language changes. As Android team puts it at Google IO, "tell us which features you care about", apparently 100% isn't a goal. Also the new compiler toolchain required for Java 8 support, Jake and Jill, still doesn't work properly. Also there are several issues, where Android has implementation bugs versus what Java libraries actually do, e.g. String::split. Have fun browsing through the issues, https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/ https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/ In a 5 years time, more or less when Java 10, hopefully gets released, the fun of writing portable Java code between Android Java and standard Java will be even better.
  • HillaryBriss 10y ago
    wow. it's even worse than i thought.
    • pjmlp 10y ago
      Yes, yet people praise Google for doing what Microsoft failed to do.