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by hocuspocus 89 days ago
> Java 21 was just released and frameworks had no meaningful support for virtual threads whatsoever.

Spring was ready on day 1, as virtual threads had been an experimental feature since Java 19. Spring Boot added support within a couple months.

> In my experience, most companies using Java are chronically multiple versions behind (e.g. some of my friends still in the Java world are on 11).

And that's on you.
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Capricorn2481 89 days ago
>> In my experience, most companies using Java are chronically multiple versions behind (e.g. some of my friends still in the Java world are on 11).

> And that's on you

What most companies do is on them?

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HendrikHensen 89 days ago
> And that's on you.

Sorry I have to defend my pride here a little bit. When I joined my previous company, the entire company was on Java 8. When I left every app in every team there was up-to-date on the latest LTS release at the time, 17. I assisted many teams in upgrading their Java, Spring, etc, and inspired even more.

I would argue that I'm one of the last people who you could blame for most companies being many Java versions behind...

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hocuspocus 88 days ago
So what's the issue then? You'd be able to bring other teams to current versions of Java and frameworks, which have all been using virtual threads for the past 3 years.
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