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[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Shoot, I got paid to write a brand new Java 8 application… in 2020

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[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

My team was just handed a Java 1.2 codebase, we are deploying it (mostly as is) to production next week.

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Make sure you enable the right flags on the JVM, such as this one:

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[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

B-but why?

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