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		tstrimple on Sept 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Java 23 / JDK 23: General Availability I feel for the enterprise Java devs. Doesn’t matter how good the language becomes and what shiny new features it gets, they are forever tied to a version 20 years out of date. Working with a client right now with dozens to close to a hundred Java 8 apps still being maintained.

vips7L on Sept 18, 2024 | [–]

IIRC less than half of all deployments are on Java 8. Most of the community has moved past it.

pylua on Sept 18, 2024 | [–]

This used to be true, but is it still? Docker and serverless have changed this considerably.

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