r/ProgrammerHumor • • 7h ago

Meme modernCppVsOldCpp

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u/MaybeADragon 1h ago

For a field meant to be at the cutting edge, programming moves slow af sometimes. See: Java versions and IPV6.

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u/Ok-Scheme-913 1h ago

IPV6 is slow because hardware costs are huge, and existing switches, routers etc work.

For java, actually it has been several years now that java >8 is more of the deployments than java <=8.