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T Jake Luciani commented on CASSANDRA-8168:
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[~ijuma] good call. added in da90e6079b3cef280f5a9c0538c3ee0939a33e22
> Require Java 8
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> Key: CASSANDRA-8168
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8168
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: T Jake Luciani
> Assignee: T Jake Luciani
> Fix For: 3.0 beta 1
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> This is to discuss requiring Java 8 for version >= 3.0
> There are a couple big reasons for this.
> * Better support for complex async work e.g (CASSANDRA-5239)
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/CompletableFuture.html
> * Use Nashorn for Javascript UDFs CASSANDRA-7395
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