There are also license differences between Java 8 and Java 9+. And the
improvements beyond 8 are not things the market seems to want. Nobody wants
Jigsaw and the API improvements aren't enough to get people to upgrade. Those
that really want new language features use Scala or Kotlin and those both run
best on Java 8. Just to add some other reasons why Java 9+ isn't really
something the market wants.
Hunter
On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 06:01:07 AM PST, Elliotte Rusty Harold
<elh...@ibiblio.org> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 8:46 PM Benjamin Marwell <bmarw...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Besides that, most big (tech) companies do not allow unmaintained or
> unsupported software.
How I wish that were true. Unmaintained and unsupported software is
all over the place, in big tech, little tech, enterprise, and my
mother's MacBook. I doubt you can install a Linux distro that doesn't
depend critically on some unmaintained library no one is paying
attention to.
What big tech mono-repo companies do differently that most other
companies don't is build everything from source themselves, kernel and
build tools included, so that when some critical bug surfaces they can
dig into the code and fix it. They are mostly not dependent on
binaries shipped by third parties. It's a feasible option for
companies in the hundreds of billions of dollars range. For the rest
of us, not so much.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elh...@ibiblio.org
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