Java 1.5 is also twelve years old. A big chunk of that time is the stagnation after 1.6 when Sun was on the ropes and Oracle hadn't stepped up to make any impro

Java 1.5 is also twelve years old. A big chunk of that time is the stagnation after 1.6 when Sun was on the ropes and Oracle hadn't stepped up to make any improvements yet. I was using the same cutting-edge version of Java for my high school AP classes as I was using in my senior year of college, which is sort of unheard of among the other actively supported and developed programming languages.