Java is looking more and more cool.
Too bad companies are still stuck on Java 8๐
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2024
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which is why the world should just move to kotlin
just move to rust and be done with it :)
Seriously though, Java devs? Moving to Rust?
What's so surprising about that?
Java is a lot more high-level than Rust. Rust is even a different paradigm.
So? If a Java dev wants to learn Rust, they'll make it. There are a lot of burned out Java devs wanting to move to something that feels new and exciting again.
But after evaluating the options, I think most would choose the easier language to learn.
Too bad companies are still stuck on Java 8๐
It's the only one that matters ๐ฅฒ Think of the shareholders.
Why is this? Did they introduce breaking changes to the language or something?
Nah, it's more of inaction on the companies' part. There are so many reasons for that, but IMO it boils down to poor engineering culture.
That's bad. 8 hasn't been getting the essential security updates since march 2022. Of course money can buy a lot, but it's still a bad idea. Even the Dutch govern.e t has mostly made the transition and they are no known for their elasticity
8 hasnโt been getting the essential security updates since march 2022.
That's not really true despite what Oracle claims. Even without dropping money for Oracle's 2030 support, there's been 9 releases to OpenJDK 8 so far in 2024. Amazon has guaranteed OpenJDK 8 LTS through 2026 as "corretto" for justifying it to corporate compliance teams.
Everyone really should upgrade but it's going to be several years yet before it's an actual security risk.
Other features that were previewed in the Java Development Kit 22 release could also make it quite easily into the Java Development Kit 23 release. These include statements before super(โฆ), which would give developers greater freedom in expressing constructor behavior โ meaning string templates. This would make it easy to express strings that include values computed at run time โ meaning scoped values. This would enable sharing of immutable data within and across threads; and implicitly declared classes and instance main methods.
[proceeds to show a seemingly normal piece of code]
is this ai generated or do i have secree-slexia?
From the way I'm reading it, it sounds like a super() call in a constructor must be the first thing you do or something you don't do? I never knew that was a thing... Looking at my old java code, I haven't written Java since I graduated, this does seem to line up?
Oh yeah, I remember now. That's definitely it.