Le mar. 6 févr. 2024 à 16:12, Hunter C Payne <hunterpayne2...@yahoo.com.invalid> a écrit :
> 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. > While I agree with the JPMS - and I was agreeing until 3-4 years ago on the rest - I kind of disagree with the rest which is no more true since java 17+ IMO. Also Scala is slowly dying while Kotlin does not get much more traction every year now so world changed and our old habits must probably too IMHO ;). > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
