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Re:Thank You, Guido by Alupis on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:35PM (#21399564)
> I'm starting to long for a stack that doesn't constantly change

Come on over to Javaland, it's nice, warm, and the sun is always shining!

With the exception of the Java 8 -> Java 11 transition (skipping the non-LTS versions), things are pretty stable. You don't have to use any new-fangled features if you don't want... and your Java 3 code compiled nearly 20 years ago will still run just fine on modern JVM's.

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Re:Thank You, Guido by anoncake on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:07PM (#21399983)
> Come on over to Javaland, it's nice, warm, and the sun is always shining!

My oracle predicts much worse weather.

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Re:Thank You, Guido by Alupis on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:11PM (#21400019)
> My oracle

Funny joke, but Oracle is all but out of the equation at this point.

They've stepped back and become yet another JVM vendor that takes OpenJDK source and compiles it into a binary for users, sprinkled with some special sauce here and there, and just happens to charge for support.

That puts them in line with Azul, IBM, Amazon, AdoptOpenJDK Project, SAP, Red Hat, and a ton more.

You get your pick of JVM vendors now... That's a fantastic thing for Java.

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Re:Thank You, Guido by gowld on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:28PM (#21400208)
Python 2 (the OP topic) from 2000 still works too.

Running code is the easy part. Writing it is the hard part.

And if running on a VM is your standard, my old DOS programs still run on DOSBox :-)

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