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They continue to use Java 8 as they see to reason to change. Article like this are meant to motivate those laggards.
by guenthert 5y ago
They continue to use Java 8 as they see to reason to change. Article like this are meant to motivate those laggards.
- tpxl 5y agoUsed to work on an application that mostly did string manipulation and we couldn't upgrade it from 8 to 9 (or 11). Java 9 got compact strings (8 bits instead of 16 per character) if you used only a subset of UTF-16 (the LATIN-1 charset apparently, which english is). We would have gotten a free speed and memory improvement but the ops refused to support it, even though we did everything ourselves ): So even if there's a reason to change, people wont do it.