It sucks when questions answered five years ago are considered the final word on the topic, and newer questions about the same topic are marked as duplicates.

It sucks when questions answered five years ago are considered the final word on the topic, and newer questions about the same topic are marked as duplicates. I want to know the best way to solve the problem in 2016, not five years ago. In that time, we've gone from Java 6 to Java 8, almost everything in the JavaScript world has changed, etc.