d8.jar sometimes depends on other libraries in the lib folder (like asm-9.x.jar or kotlin-stdlib.jar ). If you move d8.jar to a different folder, it may crash.
d8.jar is part of the . Unlike the older dx , d8 offers: d8.jar download
Introduced by Google as a "next-generation" compiler, D8 is the direct successor to the older dx tool. It was designed to address several performance bottlenecks in the Android build pipeline: d8.jar download