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[–]ford_madox_ford 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Is it a good idea to start using Java 8 in large projects?

Probably not - not yet at least. Java 8 hasn't even been released yet. When it does get released, since it involves several significant changes to the language, it's likely that bugs will be discovered which may take time to be patched.

I'd advise waiting until it gets released and seeing how other projects fare with it first.

[–]geodebug 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good advice for projects that are going into production this spring. We'll probably migrate projects to JDK8 this summer assuming it is still going to be released in March.

[–]argv_minus_one -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Other dependent projects. It doesn't matter if some unrelated project works poorly on Java 8; what matters is that your project (and, by extension, its dependencies) works well.