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Why I am moving away from Scala (arbuh.medium.com)
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[–] 11 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Java 25

Holy hell I’ve been out of that world for a hot minute. I got certified in Java 2 as a young lad in 2002 or so.

Have there been versions the whole way up, or did they skip and jump to match the year at some point?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    So were you writing applets and swing applications? It was a completely different time! However, a lot of Java 2 code can run on Java 25 with small changes!

    Java switched to a rapid release cycle in September 2017, when the six-month, time-based release cadence was first proposed and implemented. Starting with Java 10 in March 2018, a new version is released every March and September.

    Many Java versions are actually ignored by developers, who only use Long-Term Support (LTS) versions, that are released every two years.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I was doing enterprise stuff. Was a weird time dodging bullshit like j2ee “javabeans” stuff but picking out the signal from the noise.

    Mostly did websphere hosted jsp stuff. Moved to that from… check it… J++. It was right in the midst of the MS v Sun lawsuit craziness.

    Only did 2 years before a huge MS .NET enterprise pivot back to the dark side where I stayed for 20 years before jumping to embedded and rust blockchain stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Java 8 was a thing for a long time (source administered Hadoop clusters that were - and possibly still are - stuck on Java 8).

    Java 8 was analogous to 1.8...for reasons.

    I wanna say Java 11 (the version after 8) came out around 2011? After that the release cadence was somewhat steady. I think Java 21 landed around 2021?

    (Note: I refuse to actually look any of this up.)

    Edit: my refusal to look anything up immediately bites as someone else pointed out:

    1. There was a Java 10
    2. It was released in 2018.
    3. Both of these facts helped me remember Java 9 being released.

    (Note: I continue to refuse to actually look anything up)

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