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> Java has been around for nearly 30 years and is still mostly compatible to Java 1.0. That is fantastic and unrivaled! I’ve been writing java code since about
by yardstick 4y ago
> Java has been around for nearly 30 years and is still mostly compatible to Java 1.0. That is fantastic and unrivaled!
I’ve been writing java code since about 2001 and up until Java 8 this was fairly true, and definitely a fantastic thing.
However the leap from 8 to 11 or 17 (all LTS releases) is a painful process. We are moving from 8 to 17 at work, but the number of issues we run into with incompatible libraries is a right royal pain. Especially when it’s down to the (imo) silly decision to rename the java EE packages to jakarta. A pointless exercise (imo) that has held back a lot of organisations from upgrading sooner.