I'm having trouble reading this email, hang on, let me adjust the rabbit ears on my black and white television... ah better now. I'm sorry what were you saying? :-)
Gary On Mon, Jun 5, 2023, 07:22 Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 10:59 AM Delany <delany.middle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I think the point I'm making is no-one wants to write in an older version > > of the language they started writing in. Its tedious. Anyone who started > > writing java11 code is going to have a hard time accepting they need to > > write in java8, just as a java8 will bulk at writing in java5. Of course > > for the oldies it just feels nostalgic. > > > > Strongly disagree. I personally would strongly prefer to stick to Java > *7*, although these days I use mostly 8 and 11. IMHO Java 8 and Java > 11 were significant downgrades for clarity of code and ease of use. > While there were some nice improvements in libraries and VM in those > versions, they are completely swamped by the truly awful lambda syntax > and the useless pain of the Java Platform Module System. > > Nor is it like we've finished the work of migrating onto Java 8. Just > this past week I replaced some code that hasn't been needed since Java > *1.4*. > > Migrating to still newer Java versions is a distraction from far more > important work. We haven't even moved all the plugins off Java 7 yet. > The burden of proof is on people who want to migrate to Java 17 to > show how that will improve the project. That burden has not been met. > > -- > Elliotte Rusty Harold > elh...@ibiblio.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
