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by bitL 2309 days ago
How is Fuchsia relevant to Java API Oracle is chasing them for? Google's back up plan is Kotlin anyway; they can push new version of API that completely severs backward compatibility while providing some library for "legacy app API translation".
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> while providing some library for "legacy app API translation".

Can they, after an Oracle victory?

I thought that Kotlin required the JVM to run?
JVM is fair game; this case is about Java SDK interface.
There are compilers to native.

But this lawsuit isn't about the JVM. Its about the java sdk.