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[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Shoot, I got paid to write a brand new Java 8 application… in 2020

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My team was just handed a Java 1.2 codebase, we are deploying it (mostly as is) to production next week.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Make sure you enable the right flags on the JVM, such as this one:

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

B-but why?

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Uh… the customer is always right?

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fair enough, though I'd imagine there's some actual platform constraint to force using an old version for a new project

[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah, that’s what it was. The software was going to be deployed to a range of aircraft of various ages and the oldest ones only supported Java 8.