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by ajoy39 2901 days ago
Probably has something to do with that ongoing lawsuit with oracle
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pjmlp 2901 days ago
Easily avoidable if Google had not screw Sun in first place, and if they bothered to buy it afterwards when Sun went bankrupt.

Apparently they thought they could get away with it.

And there are still lots of jars on Maven central that are unusable on Android Oreo.

Because even after switching to OpenJDK, they cherry pick APIs from there and ART does not support all JVM bytecode features.

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repolfx 2899 days ago
I don't think it's that. They switched to OpenJDK a while ago.

It seems to be more that they don't prioritise keeping up with the Java ecosystem very much, they'd rather work on their own stuff. It's more a cultural issue than anything else IMO. Google has always had a big NIH problem.

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