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The Code Report: Java is mounting a huge comeback

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Java 11 allows you to paste in JavaScript and it largely just works

Var is not Javascript. It's not even type inference. It just reduces redundancy in the boilerplate.

The module changes are a PITA, but not increasingly difficult. There aren't really other big backwards incompatible changes

The actual backend improvements keep being pushed

What changes are you referring to?

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Do your routine backend code releases require downtime?

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if you're allowed to take downtime, you can do it all in one step without worrying about mixed-version environments.

You don't need to wiry about mixed version environments but you need to worry about whether you can roll back your changes without loss of data. It's not as hard but it seems to get overlooked if there haven't been any bad deployments lately.

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I like programming.dev and what's happening on my "local" instance, but once i check of what's happening in the wild (other instances) I am reluctant to recommend lemmy to others.

What communities/instances are you dominating your /c/all? Asking because I was hoping for more leftist discussion and I'm not really seeing it outside of lemmygrad.

Edit: I'm mostly following programming.dev and lemmyrs.org, so I'm not really looking too hard. And I appreciate beehaw, but it feels more center left than left.

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The Code Report: Java is mounting a huge comeback

Can't watch the video right now but it makes a ton of sense that java would be having a resurgence. Pre-java 8 it felt like the every day I ran into problems it would be easier to solve in other languages. I'm still mostly on 8 and it feels pretty modern still. I'm super excited to move to 17 and 21 for all the new features, though.

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What are your thoughts on Beehaw defederating?

Beehaw has existed for over a year. I'm not sure they'll need to rebuild. This isn't a company that requires constant growth, it's a community. I like the idea of beehaw, and hope that they decide to refederate with the other instances, but I think they'll survive and maybe even thrive without doing so.

That said I'm glad I've got an account that's on none of those three instances