Hmm...
No user benefits like greatly improved JVM performance between 1.4.2 and
1.6?
On 5/30/2011 10:24 PM, Steven Herod wrote:
The opposition to moving beyond 1.4.x would be mainly the cost.
You have a working application which is stable, you are expending
minimal effort maintaining, and suddenly someone is proposing you
spend effort/cash to give developers a warm fuzzy feeling and the end
user no actual visible benefit.
Hard to justify. Easier to wait until the app is retired.
On May 30, 9:57 pm, Ricky Clarkson<[email protected]> wrote:
The semantics are pretty clear, as you get compile errors when you get
things wrong.
Java developers *were* used to unsafe casts. I'm regularly in ##java
on freenode IRC and see fewer and fewer people trying to use untyped
collections. It still happens, though mainly by accident.
I've seen some new Java code using untyped Vectors and Hashtables
recently, but a) the [ir]responsible developers just left b) that
would have happened no matter what Java had done short of removing
Vector and Hashtable.
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On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Casper Bang<[email protected]> wrote:
It's quite elegant that in general if I update a dependency and that
dependency has switched from raw types to generics, I generally have
nothing to do. With the .NET approach I would have to marshal between
old and new collection types constantly.
Yes but at least the semantics would be clear up front right there in
the type-system and you'd avoid various pitfalls (Java developers are
used to unsafe casts and unsafe array variance) as well as pave the
way for a deprecation/migration strategy. Sometimes something must die
in order to leave the way for something new, or all we get are zombies.
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