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Re:Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech by johnisgood on Friday May 16, 2025 @06:28PM (#44010332)
> You can take pretty much any code written for Java 1.0 and you can still build and run it on Java 24.

This is not my experience with Java at all. I very often have to modify $JAVA_HOME.

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Re:Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech by winrid on Friday May 16, 2025 @07:07PM (#44010607)
Are you using Gradle projects? Gradle is especially difficult for some reason.
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Re:Java at 30: The Genius Behind the Code That Changed Tech by johnisgood on Friday May 16, 2025 @07:12PM (#44010628)
Sadly. I would rather avoid Gradle and Java in general. I did not have good experiences with them. :/
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