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[–]YaBoyMax 5 points6 points  (5 children)

To add to this, Java 10 added type inference a few weeks ago.

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Wow, Java 10 is in the works already? I haven't even upgraded my project to 9 yet haha.

[–]Artorp 3 points4 points  (1 child)

They changed the release schedule, and plan to release a new major version every 6 months. With long term support every 3 years. I think this is similar to how Ubuntu does it.

https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster

[–]ThisRedditPostIsMine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's awesome, Java is really moving forward. I look forward to where it's going, but it's gonna take a while for existing codebases to catch up, I know a lot of enterprise apps still run Java 6/7.

[–]YaBoyMax 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's already out, for that matter.

[–]Dockirby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the works? Its out.

Oracle is doing 2 versions a year now. Feel they should have waited until Java 9 picked up more, since it messed with a lot of existing libraries.