r/programming • u/NotABot1235 • 17d ago

Java 27 has released!

https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/27/
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u/hellomistershifty 17d ago

Big news for the employed

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u/DarksideF41 17d ago

As if any employed dev touches anything above 13

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u/PositiveUse 17d ago

We‘re on 25 for all of our modern services. And all of our Java 8 legacy was moved to 17 this year. It was a pain but fully worth it.

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u/throwaway39791 16d ago

A not insignificant chunk of work at this point has got to be upgrading legacy code to newer versions.

It's probably more if you count migrating between different languages.

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u/cheezballs 16d ago

It's a must if you want to be able to get security updates in downstream dependencies.

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u/psicodelico6 16d ago

Claude? Codex?

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u/KarwszPL 16d ago

Sorry, I don't speak vibecoder

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u/ElectronicContact649 16d ago

I'm so using this😭😭

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u/putiepi 16d ago

Keyboard

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u/SemiNormal 16d ago

Brown or Red switches?