Yeah, I was going to chip in; there are two kinds of stable. You can say "Java N" is more stable than "Java 8" because they crash less often under fewer circum

Yeah, I was going to chip in; there are two kinds of stable. You can say "Java N" is more stable than "Java 8" because they crash less often under fewer circumstances. But you can also say "Java 8" is more stable than "Java N" because we know most of the bugs in "Java 8" already so we can avoid them (and we don't exercise the unknown bugs very often because we'd have worked around them by now if we did). Often that second kind of stability is more important than the other one.