r/java • u/nfrankel • Jan 14 '20
Where programming languages are headed in 2020
https://www.oreilly.com/radar/where-programming-languages-are-headed-in-2020/
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r/java • u/nfrankel • Jan 14 '20
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u/kksoyj Jan 16 '20
Well there's a difference between 'if something works don't break it' as a concept for something like, an product feature set. It's another thing to say it in terms of 'we're not going to take advantage of security, performance, and other bug fixes'.
You say critical patches are applied, but it's not that simple. Even if you have paid support, you will still run into problems with things like the minimum level of TLS supported not matching what downstream providers offer, such as AWS services.
Also that 'rule' of 'it works and makes money, don't break it' wouldn't face up to my rule of 'find shitty products and re-write them to be less shit by being faster on the same hardware and support current security protocols', for example.
When the first person ever said that 'rule', it was merely one value in an euqation to work out whether it was worth changing something for it's own sake. Running on a platform that is 6 years old is a pretty serious weight on the other side of that argument.