Yet, all that is besides the point: In essence, those reasons would apply to any installation you have once you run it long enough. I.e., those particular probl

Yet, all that is besides the point: In essence, those reasons would apply to any installation you have once you run it long enough. I.e., those particular problems are not Java-specific, and in fact, I would even dare speculate that such issues are through the bench worse in any other language than Java. ADDENDUM: Yes, C++ is technically even more backwards compatible - if your code base and all dependencies was/were 100% standards compliant (har har). But again, for me, the main point is that most newer languages first have to prove they can keep up to such levels of backwards compatibility (e.g., see the Python 3 fiasco...).