Comment by kaba0

Comment by kaba0 10 days ago

> It's so bad that there are companies promising JDK8

Come on, that's absolutely not the reason behind. That just means that there are banks and such that still run goddamn windows XP completely firewalled off from the internet just because. Similarly, for some companies not touching that ancient codebase and just having it safely run worth the hassle and the money.

Java is the most backwards compatible language and it is not even a close competition.

cyberax 10 days ago

> Similarly, for some companies not touching that ancient codebase and just having it safely run worth the hassle and the money. > Java is the most backwards compatible language and it is not even a close competition.

It's amazing to have two contradicting sentences right next to each other.

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Yasuraka 9 days ago

> Java is the most backwards compatible language and it is not even a close competition.

In competitions consisting of Java, PHP and Python, I presume?

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kaba0 9 days ago

In competitions of real world code in a language that has been in use for close to 30 years, and I can find a java 1.1 program that will both compile as source on the latest version, AND the original compiled version itself will run on a modern JDK as is.

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- Yasuraka 8 days ago
  
  And I assume this mythical 1.1 program does of course do a lot more than System.out.println and the reason that it took until recently, in part thanks to the Log4J fiasco, for 8 (almost 11 years old) to no longer be the most widely used version, was just superstition?
  
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