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According to the latest jrebel report, about 70% of Java shops are still on Java 8 as of earlier this year. The changes with Java 9 certainly created plenty of
by mumblemumble 5y ago
According to the latest jrebel report, about 70% of Java shops are still on Java 8 as of earlier this year. The changes with Java 9 certainly created plenty of work for me. Java's famous claim to backward compatibility mostly concerns the JVM itself. They have done a killer job there. But the virtual machine is not the same thing as the platform that rests atop it.
This is not by way of complaining about Java 9. The changes are good and needed to happen. And the reasons why most people are still on Java 8 are also legitimate. Everyone's handling the situation in a fairly mature way, from what I've seen. The level of histrionics about Python 3, though... I've got a lot less sympathy for that.