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by CydeWeys 3092 days ago
The entire sandboxing model was swapped out between Java 7 and Java 8 on GAE. That's why it took so long. No such major change is needed for Java 9, which won't lag nearly so far behind.

Also, not having access to Java 8 was painful. Not being able to use lambdas or streams for that long really sucked. There's no similar pain from not having access to Java 9 yet; it's not nearly as big of a change in the language.
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needusername 3090 days ago
The thing is Java 9 will be end of live and receive no further updates after March 2018 (yes, that's three months away).

> it's not nearly as big of a change in the language

True, but there were quite dramatic changes to the JDK.

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