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An Oracle marketing person reached out to me for some video clips talking about Java last Summer. One of the questions they asked is where do you see Java in 2
by heelix 6y ago
An Oracle marketing person reached out to me for some video clips talking about Java last Summer. One of the questions they asked is where do you see Java in 25 years? At that point in time, with a six month release cycle, the answer was Java 64. :)
I got on the Java roller coaster in the Java 1.1 days... so some 23 years since I wrote my first Applet that tied to the mainframe via RMI/CORBA. Java has really evolved. Seems there is a wide range of Java developers - those fluent with streams, lambdas and other features introduced in Java 8 - and those who don't even seem to know what Java 7 try with resources are. I suspect C++ and other languages that have been around for multiple decades see the same thing. Not sure if it is the starting education or just dated material.
- chapium 6y agoI recently took some java classes and java 8 was baseline.
- oaiey 6y agoBe happy about it. It is no fun programming in early versions.
- pdevr 6y agoAh. RMI. It is funny. When I started with Java, one of the first real-world problems I faced, was solved using RMI. After many years, I faced a weird situation where requests were not passing through properly and hence, security assertions were failing.I solved it by ditching the frameworks and making pure HTTP calls[1]. I thought, the wheel has come full circle :-) [1] Disclaimer: Do not try at home, unless you know very well what you are doing. Especially when it involves security.