On 3/3/20 10:26 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > But one of the few things of which I am certain is that we must not > allow the needs of backporting to determine the future of Java. That's > the way of staying in the past.
Unpopular opinion: It's the enterprise customers that mainly pay for the development of software, not the users of rolling release distributions. I know that maintaining old stuff is boring but that's where the money is made. Too many developers unfortunately seem to forget that. > As Patrick Head put it, “Some people tell me that Formula 1 would be > better if the drivers still used stick shifts, but that’s a bit like > saying, 'isn’t it a pity we don’t still walk around in clogs!'” Maintenance of stable software isn't done for nostalgic reasons, it's because enterprise customers need a reliable and stable platform to run their businesses on. A lot of businesses are still running on JDK-8 for this reason. Running bleeding edge software might be an option for a single desktop user, but not in an enterprise environment with thousands of users or in a critical environment like the booking system of an airline. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
