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Re:Two Years with Rust by vbezhenar on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:26AM (#22663884)
Java become that beast. They released Java 1. Then nothing changed until Java 5 which was huge release in terms of changes. Then again nothing changed until Java 8 and since Java 8 every release brings some major changes. So you could basically learn Java 5 and use Java 6, Java 7 for 10 years with virtually no changes, but now there are some changes every year.

I bet that many people won't like it and will stay on Java 7 forever.

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Re:Two Years with Rust by swsieber on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:46AM (#22664034)
While there are some changes every year, if you batch by LTS, the change window has shifted from 10 years down to 3. And I think it's a reasonable choice.
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Re:Two Years with Rust by p2detar on Monday March 23, 2020 @06:32PM (#22669497)
Not that many radical changes since Java 8 that I can think of. The language stays quite coherent so far. I find myself using “var” and switch with strings pretty often with Java 11.
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