Second, I didn’t say it is in every single case backward compatible, since that is impossible in a continuously evolving platform. But there are really few “user”-facing changes in the JVM. And so I still state that calling the JVM non-stable (for which you provided no evidence), or non-backward compatible is simply false.
Please tell me a platform which is stable/backward compatible according to you to at least this degree.
(Also, we are at java 16!, java 5, 6 is so old that it is not particularly telling about anything)
Second, I didn’t say it is in every single case backward compatible, since that is impossible in a continuously evolving platform. But there are really few “user”-facing changes in the JVM. And so I still state that calling the JVM non-stable (for which you provided no evidence), or non-backward compatible is simply false. Please tell me a platform which is stable/backward compatible according to you to at least this degree.
(Also, we are at java 16!, java 5, 6 is so old that it is not particularly telling about anything)