orbituary comments on Installing Java in 2025, and Version Managers

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

As an admin who has to update it, work with it, or interact with it from a workstation or server, it's a terrible experience.

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[–] AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Ok, that I can understand. But any modern Java application should be shipped as a container were this isn't an issue.

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[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

"My car is super reliable, but only if you put it on the back of a big flatbed truck."

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[–] AudaciousArmadillo@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't see how you'd have any less problems with a natively installed Node.js, Python or PHP application. This is not a Java specific issue.

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[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

Java isn't any of those.

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[–] Deifyed@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

It's millions of lines more code. In a dockerized world, there is zero reason to use another virtualization layer

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