> A similar thing to when I see a command or an API call that does what you want then says "deprecated" (with no clue of why or how to do that now). Hm, that i

> A similar thing to when I see a command or an API call that does what you want then says "deprecated" (with no clue of why or how to do that now). Hm, that is actually a point where (in my experience at least) the Java community tends to do pretty well: in nearly all cases where I see an API that is deprecated there is a comment that at least tells you what you should use instead. Additionally, "deprecated" usually means that it still works, which is a whole lot better than having it simply disappear.