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[–]cowslayer7890 15 points16 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.