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The longstanding disaster of Java version numbering and licensing continues. How long until they reverse course on this? I don’t know of any other popular langu
by mberning 5y ago
The longstanding disaster of Java version numbering and licensing continues. How long until they reverse course on this? I don’t know of any other popular language with a such a sordid history in these areas.
- matsemann 5y agoMeh, not a disaster in practice. Our team has spent less than 10 minutes thinking about this the later years. For server stuff one points to a matching dockerfile, for distributed stuff one bundles the jre with the tools since java9.
- kaba0 5y agoIntegers increasing by one each 6th months doesn’t sound too difficult, but to each their own.
- mberning 5y agoWell lets see. It started off as JDK 1.0. The became J2SE 1.2. Then later Java SE 6. That took like a decade. Then they had sporadic releases for 5 years or so. Now they want a release every 6 months. Never mind the licensing/ownership issues over the years and now the proliferation of multiple distributions that are basically the same.