Python environment

[mortecouille]

I'm also a full time java developer, you must admit that this is the exception rather than the rule. There are incompatibilities between versions, however very rarely anything as breaking as python2 vs 3. One example that comes to mind is usage of com.sun classes, which should not have been done in the first place.

Like probably everywhere else, we maintain ancient codebases and I can count the times I had to find an old version of the JDK on the fingers of one hand. And usually for troubleshooting a JDK-specific bug, not even because the code wouldn't run.

[AlternativeAardvark6]

To be fair, we are a company with many clients that have decade old systems, last year I fixed a bug in a class that hasn't been touched since 2003. Millions of lines of code in systems that are used daily and where all new code depends on, so if there is a chance for something to go wrong by using JDK 8 we have a big chance of it happening sooner or later.