Oracle Drops JDK 10
I've been rebuilding a new MacBook Pro laptop from work because the security tools we use at The Shop don't allow Migration Assistant to work - which is sad, because it works so well under normal circumstances, but water under the bridge, and I have to reinstall a lot of things on the box - as if from scratch.
Because of Clojure, one of the things I have to make sure to install is the latest JDK. Actually, I need to install all the latest JDKs - 1.8, 9, 10, and 11. And then I have a simple little tool for changing the JDK version that I want to be using. Simple. Easy.
When I last went to upgrade the versions of the JDKs, I found that Oracle has dropped support for JDK 9. I had heard a lot of talk about how JDK 9 wasn't really doing well because of some of the design decisions... and so this wasn't really a surprise, but it was unexpected to see that Oracle had pulled it from the Downloads. But OK... they didn't want people using it, so they pulled it.
Today, I saw that Oracle had pulled JDK 10 as well. Now that was a bit of a surprise. I know that it wasn't as popular with the Clojure community as JDK 1.8, but to see a second abandoned JDK version... well... that's a heck of a realization from Oracle. It's not good... it's causing us too much to support it... drop it.
So I have JDK 1.8 and 11 on the new laptop, even though on my personal machine I still have the last available JDK 10. But at some point, that will have to be thinned out because it just won't be supported. Wild.
Hats off to the JDK 1.8 guys - You've made a heck of a product.