Sure, I am not claiming that you have to use every new feature every day 100% of the time. Obviously there are cases where you can’t upgrade for legal or compliance or “customer is just being difficult” reasons.
A lot of Java jobs aren’t that though, especially internal applications. A lot of places are running Java 17 or Java 21 on all their servers, literally have no plans to ever support anything lower, but the engineers are still writing Java like it’s 2003. That is what’s maddening to me.
A lot of Java jobs aren’t that though, especially internal applications. A lot of places are running Java 17 or Java 21 on all their servers, literally have no plans to ever support anything lower, but the engineers are still writing Java like it’s 2003. That is what’s maddening to me.