It doesn't help that they keep deprecating and changing standard stuff every other version. It's like they can't make up their mind and everything may be subject to change. Updating to the most recent release can suddenly cause 10s or 100s of compiler warnings/errors and things may no longer behave the same. Then you look up the new documentation and realize that you have to refactor a large part of the codebase because the "new way" is for whatever reason vastly different.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Can you give some examples? I'm my experience Java has been pretty easy to upgrade to new versions. 9 was a bit wacky but that was it. It's definitely been less of a headache than worrying about using Python 2 versus 3, for example.

[–] JaxNakamura@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

They made it free so they could sell courses and consultancy hours. Can't do that if it's all straightforward. It's the death star of complexity.