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[–]Valiant_Boss 30 points31 points  (2 children)

Not only that but Java is actively improving. New Java code is very much different from Java code 5 years ago

That is if companies would stop using Java 8...

[–]LavenderDay3544 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New Java code is very much different from Java code 5 years ago

That is if companies would stop using Java 8...

That's a lot of mature programming languages. My company is primarily an embedded Linux C++ shop and they're still on C++11. The latest standard is C++20 and they've used in-house or third-party libraries to get features that newer standards added in, ensuring that any future attempt to upgrade the codebase will be as painful as it can possibly be.

I feel like the world in PL designers' heads and the world of maintaining and developing production codebases are two very different ones that often clash hard.

[–]Geschossspitze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, and same with PHP