What's the difference in having `implementation(ko...
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jeggy
06/08/2020, 4:26 PMWhat's the difference in having
implementation(kotlin("stdlib"))implementation(kotlin("stdlib-jdk8"))c
Casey Brooks
06/08/2020, 4:28 PMThis article explains the differences pretty well https://medium.com/@mbonnin/the-different-kotlin-stdlibs-explained-83d7c6bf293
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jeggy
06/08/2020, 4:32 PMThanks 🙂
As I'm running on Java11 on a server. It should be fine for me to use use
stdlib-jdk8c
Casey Brooks
06/08/2020, 4:34 PMYeah, that should be fine. They don’t have stdlib versions past 8, but that one should work just fine. I have projects using
stdlib-jdk8j
jeggy
06/08/2020, 4:35 PMPerfect. Thanks for the answers 👍
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christophsturm
06/08/2020, 5:11 PMmaybe it should be called jdk8+
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Mike
06/15/2020, 9:11 PMIt leverages features that were added in jdk8, hence the name. So Lambda's etc. Those still exist in 9, 10 etc, so it's still applicable, and those features haven't been superseded by anything in later JDK's.
There haven't been jdk9, jdk10 etc versions as there hasn't been anything added to the bytecode that they've wanted to take advantage of in the stdlib.
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