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by josephcsible 1073 days ago
> Oracle has been a remarkably good steward of Java

Well, other than ramming through modules and the --add-opens fiasco from Java 9.

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What was the issue about modules?
The point of using setAccessible with reflection was to access private fields and methods, and the module features in Java 9 made that impossible without passing a gigantic list of command-line flags to every invocation of Java.
And that stupid lawsuit.