The Bytecode Chicken-Egg Problem

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Bytecode is the (mostly) invisible superpower of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Even though it’s an essential part of the Java ecosystem puzzle, it’s also a niche topic and behind-the-scenes feature that many of us do only have surface knowledge of. However, there’s a chicken-egg problem lurking within Bytecode libraries which the OpenJDK team intends to fix with JEP 484.
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