[homebrewer]

I don't think they promise more than three years? (Not a criticism in the slightest, I don't demand anything from unpaid volunteers.)

"RHEL" is supported for 10, and if Oracle screws us over (I can believe in that possibility), ELevate lets you migrate sideways to any supported alternative.

It really depends on the use case.

[spookie]

It uses semantic versioning. Maybe that's where our different assessments lie.

For example, 15.6 was still stuck on GCC 7. Guess when 15.0 was released. Also, stuck on Python 3.6, which was released around the same time.