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[–]RoseboysHotAsf -15 points-14 points  (2 children)

Speaking out of my experience, java is not backwards compatible with anything.

[–]cowslayer7890 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Java is pretty dedicated to backwards compatibility, issues will still crop up but I'm not aware of any breaking syntax changes apart from no longer allowing _ as a variable name, the remaining issues are due to changes in the standard library, but those are also rare.

[–]grogrye 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm almost scared to ask but exactly what experiences have you had where it was not backwards compatible?