Java In 2025: If It Compiles, Don't Update It

The rest of the world celebrates as Java marches forward to version 25, while our hero sits smugly at a café, sipping his drink, completely unbothered about upgrading from Java 8. Why fix what isn't broken? Enterprise developers know the secret sauce of software stability: never touch a working production environment. Meanwhile, the Java community is out there having a parade for features they'll probably never use. That's the beauty of legacy systems – they outlive the developers who built them, the managers who approved them, and possibly several civilizations.