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As a polyglot, I have to say this is a misleading and false equivalence. The upgrade treadmill in Java is nothing like the upgrade treadmill in any other popula
by stickfigure 7y ago
As a polyglot, I have to say this is a misleading and false equivalence. The upgrade treadmill in Java is nothing like the upgrade treadmill in any other popular language - certainly not Javascript, Python, Ruby, or Go.
- koolba 7y agoIt's nowhere near as much as those languages but it's also nowhere near as seamless as it was for prior versions. Non-trivial applications and libraries do break going from 8 to 8+ (usually on the way to 9 but sometimes 11 as well). This is in contrast to the legendary backwards compatibility of 1.4 to 1.5 to 6 to 7 to 8.