There’s a Java version higher than 8?
One of my university professors wanted us to program using DrJava, so of course Java 8 it is.
Why did he want to use that? Because it was similar DrRacket, which he made us use in the previous term to program Scheme (which is just lisp for teachers). Of course that was just us being all modern and such, he himself used DrScheme, the deprecated precursor of DrRacket.
This guy is so old that my high school Systems teacher had him as her university professor.
He has a fancy current gen MacBook Pro that he uses for his stuff. Then when it’s lesson time he whips out a windows 95 netbook and a daisy chain of adapters from VGA to thunderbolt.
He has a fancy current gen MacBook Pro that he uses for his stuff. Then when it’s lesson time he whips out a windows 95 netbook and a daisy chain of adapters from VGA to thunderbolt.
I mean at that point you gotta admire the tenacity
That’s so new! My stuff still requires version 1.8
/swe upgraded to 8 from 5 at my first job in 2014
Java? You’ll be doing Cobol.
won’t be updating to Java 21
happysad dev noisesIf you code it in VBA, you won’t have to worry about future version updates. #futureproof
if your bosses pants look like that don’t take his swingline
bmy thapler
I don’t do Java. What is being implied here?
The company is using old proprietary software that breaks unless a specific java version is used. And don’t want to upgrade/switch because it is too expensive.
Isn’t there an openjdk impl in like every major Linux distro repository?
And so I assume the same would be available for windows?
yes, but that doesn’t help if the software refuses to run on modern java
Some crappy software actively checks for a specific version, and you can’t work around that.
Can you edit the byte code with a hex editor to change that check?
Not if you want support from the vendor :p
Just build the OSS version of java-impl with the patched version number as expected by the shitty software.
You assumed the switch needs to happen on the JDK. It’s actually that we bought this software that depends on the old version with a perpetual license 18 years ago before every decided SaaS was god so we’ve got another 3 years left before ROI breaks even
And don’t want to upgrade/switch because it is too expensive
Oh boy, you better have no employees or Oracle will make you pay for their existence:
https://www.oracle.com/in/a/ocom/docs/corporate/pricing/java-se-subscription-pricelist-5028356.pdf
You should really quiet down, how else are you going to hear anything?
Wow I actually had a boss that wore these pants and wouldn’t let me upgrade from a decade out-of-date visual studio C.
Please, Hammer… don’t hurt em.
Is my boss going to the junior high dance in 1992?
