Java really hasn't had great social stewardship for some time. Oracle has really just kept the tech going, but there's a number of very real issues: Newcomers

Java really hasn't had great social stewardship for some time. Oracle has really just kept the tech going, but there's a number of very real issues: Newcomers get no real guidance on what to do. What do you install? It can be any of a number of different vendors. How do you deploy? The official documentation hasn't been updated since Java 8: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/index.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/index.htm.... It still mentions applets! (Which are going to be removed soon.) IMO, all projects should be using jlink and shipping a slim runtime they've used to test against (https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/tools/jlink.html https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/tools/jlink.html). There's basically zero documentation on how to use this for non-modular applications, and you have to find and apply non-official plugins to get that work done. I continue to see most deployments using the entire JDK which, honestly, has been unnecessary for three years. Nobody really knows what they mean with "OpenJDK". They might be talking about some distribution based on the source code. Or, they might be talking about a download from jdk.java.net. Or they might be talking about installations from Azul, Microsoft, AWS, or any number of ad-hoc vendors because the name is unlicensed. This is a big deal, because I've had team matest install "OpenJDK" and actually end up with ad-hoc builds that weren't tested, and had random bugs. Professionally, I've ended up having to deal with fixing landmines because Java devs tend to not learn the intricacies of their frameworks as well. The technology is still going strong, and is moving faster since the modularization. Loom (https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/going-inside-javas-project-loom-and-virtual-threads https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/going-inside-javas-pro...) will be a big deal... but I wonder, will most devs practically understand how to take advantage of it?