“that they worked on a go program that works five years later (which language do...

alblue · on Nov 12, 2020

It’s still possible to run Java programs that were compiled for 1.2 on modern day JVMs without change.

jshen · on Nov 13, 2020

Yeah, Java is better than most languages at this too. It’s still too early to say for sure, but Go feels better at this point. it has more to do with the libraries, dependencies, and ecosystem relative to Java.

I don’t even remember what I was using for Java 1.2. Maybe ant and struts? I doubt there’s a good path to update such things without a giant rewrite or refactor.