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Discussion on: 20 Reasons to Move On from Java 8

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edh_developer

Important to remember that Java 9 introduced breaking changes. That's why, for instance, Jenkins on any Java version > 8 was broken for years. Much like going from Python 2 to Python 3, before you commit, be sure the things you need to work are going to continue to work.

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Andrew (he/him)

Yeah, Hadoop still doesn't work on Java >8, as far as I know.

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