When You Enjoy Your Legacy Java 8 Codebase

The Empire (management) questions why anyone would still use Java 8 in 2023, while the Jedi (developer) just wants to be left alone with their stable, predictable codebase. No security patches? No problem. Legacy code doesn't care about your fancy new features when it's been running flawlessly since 2014. The dark side is tempting with its shiny Java 21 virtual threads, but some of us prefer our ancient garbage collector and reliable NullPointerExceptions just where we expect them.