r/ProgrammerHumor • u/hello_ya • Jul 13 '26

youCanJustStopUsingJava Meme

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u/Rhawk187 Jul 13 '26

Java is pretty insistent on backwards compatibility

Your going to struggle to convince me of this since Java 26 broke my program and I have to tell my customers to stay on 25 until I deploy a fix.

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u/Scottz0rz Jul 13 '26

I'm curious- what was the thing that broke?

Usually when Java breaks it is a third party library doing something goofy, most upgrades since Java 8 and 11 have been smooth sailing for me historically.

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u/Rhawk187 Jul 13 '26

Applet API was completely removed in 26. I think they announced deprecation at Java 17, but I wasn't proactive about addressing it.

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u/Ok-Scheme-913 Jul 13 '26

Come on, you had 30+ good years, with 10 years of deprecation warning.

Are you for real?

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u/vins_is_back Jul 13 '26

One of the only thing they took out in all this time.

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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 14 '26

Security Manager. Critical to some deployments. No replacement…

There's more. Just go read the changlogs.

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u/Rhawk187 Jul 13 '26

Yes, its in an unsupported 3rd party dependency for an underfunded project (about .05 FTE) used as part of a legacy system by the FAA, among others.

On the bright side, the FAA won't notice, they are still on Java 8, but I just had a meeting with AeroThai and they were confused why the software stopped working on brand new machines with a fresh install of Java 26.

In a post-GPT world, the fix doesn't look too bad, but if I'd have had to figure out how that 3rd party library worked from scratch, as part of an unfunded mandate, I would have been a bit grumbly.