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Let's now assume JDK17 offers good enough javac , now NetBeans project can suggest/require people to use JDK17 when using to run Apache NetBeans IDE
- not a big problem, JDK17 is LTS, but then?
- if people wanted to use language features of JDK19, they'd have to run on 19!
- that's not what competition does - they support latest language features running on JDK11 LTS or even JDK8 LTS
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