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by kaba0 1741 days ago
That’s ingenious to write off Java as not backwards compatible. The only change they did was closing the doors to the internals of the JVM because those are implementation-dependent anyway (meaning those programs wouldn’t have worked on anything not OpenJDK) and are likely to change. You can still absolutely run a class file compiled to Java 1.0 on a JDK 16.