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Ouch. Java 7 and 8 introduced a bunch of very pleasant syntactical fixes that greatly improved my pleasure in coding Java. What's holding you back on 6?
by Freak_NL 8y ago
Ouch. Java 7 and 8 introduced a bunch of very pleasant syntactical fixes that greatly improved my pleasure in coding Java. What's holding you back on 6?
- pwagland 8y agoProbably they are using an "enterprise" J2EE stack that hasn't been updated to the latest version.
- gdsdfe 8y agoBingo! Ginormous amount of technical debt that nobody is dealing with and probably not even seeing ... Plus a culture of "if it works don't touch it" ... I am dying inside ...
- itronitron 8y ago6 to 7 is an easier switch than 7 to 8, they changed the boolean value of at least one default runtime parameter in java 8 without telling anyone
- qw 8y agoIf the only restriction is the compatibility with the rest of the stack, perhaps Kotlin is an option? Kotlin can target JDK 6 and can integrate with old stacks
- agumonkey 8y agoyeah java8 is liveable, previous versions are tough on your soul
- riku_iki 8y ago>Java 7 and 8 and Java 10 has much better type inference too.