Funny story, friend and I were just talking last night about how Java 8 is still used everywhere.

  • Baldur Nil
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    4 hours ago

    Besides what other people said, one example is classes being closed by default (you need to explicitly set a keyword to make them open to extension). That was done to prevent inheriting from classes that weren’t designed to be inherited, and forcing you to use composition instead.