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bitL on Feb 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Trump administration backs Oracle in Google fight

How is Fuchsia relevant to Java API Oracle is chasing them for? Google's back up plan is Kotlin anyway; they can push new version of API that completely severs backward compatibility while providing some library for "legacy app API translation".

usrusr on Feb 20, 2020 | [–]

> while providing some library for "legacy app API translation".

Can they, after an Oracle victory?

jedieaston on Feb 20, 2020 | [–]

I thought that Kotlin required the JVM to run?

gnulinux on Feb 20, 2020 | | [–]

JVM is fair game; this case is about Java SDK interface.

UncleMeat on Feb 20, 2020 | | [–]

There are compilers to native.

But this lawsuit isn't about the JVM. Its about the java sdk.

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