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Java, by prioritizing API compatibility across releases and having compiler-checked types. The result being that unless you hit a particularly crappy piece of
by teacup50 11y ago
Java, by prioritizing API compatibility across releases and having compiler-checked types.
The result being that unless you hit a particularly crappy piece of software, it's save to just pick the later version of two dependencies and use that.
- grogenaut 11y agolol, you mean like the vm itself with different xml parsers between 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, and other built in restrictions in other areas. Also with allowing and then disallowing manipulation of certain namespaces (esp the core ones). It's a problem a human has to get involved with at some point no matter what.
- teacup50 11y agoAnecdotal exceptions aren't proof of universal truth.