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I've thought a lot about this quite a bit. In my day to day life, which is a cog in the machine at $Megacorp, I regularly work on embarrassingly old versions of

I've thought a lot about this quite a bit. In my day to day life, which is a cog in the machine at $Megacorp, I regularly work on embarrassingly old versions of Java (hello JDK 8!). So, not having the latest and greatest language features is a topic close to my heart. As such, the book takes a very tool agnostic approach. If we cover something that's only available advanced JDKs, we also cover what to do if you don't have it. Data oriented programming is about building around the data in your domain. The latest tools are nice, but they're just tools.

topspin 2y ago
I appreciate your conundrum. While it has been good to see Java language designers attempt to advance the language, they've been extremely conservative and non-committal. This is a problem because tooling is costly to develop and tool developers are forever facing the problem of whether to invest the work needed to integrate these language features when they take years to be realized, and may yet vanish. Likewise for authors, such as yourself.