Should ELK transition to Java 11?

Open uruuru opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

To start a discussion and collect opinions (if there are any) and arguments: should we move to Java 11?

Prerequisites

Do all Eclipse-related parts support Java 11? E.g. tycho? ❓
elkjs should be fine with it as with the latest GWT release (2.9.0, May 2019) Java 11 support has been added ✔️
AFAICT it's not possible to compile Java 8 anymore, thus we'd drop support for running our code on Java 8 jres. ❓

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May 21 '20 17:05 uruuru

At least from the Kiel University point of view, we could drop Java 8 support and also migrate to xtext 2.25 (see #702). #785 might also be related. I suggest to do this in elk 0.9.0, which hopefully will be released quicker than 0.8.0.

Mar 07 '22 09:03 soerendomroes