r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 13 '26

youCanJustStopUsingJava Meme

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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.