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melling on Nov 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust and Go

Go updates twice a year, which is actually a lot. I don't think a release every 6 weeks for Rust is a good idea. That'll never fly for enterprise software. Heck, for some companies the Java upgrade cycle is too fast.

pjmlp on Nov 8, 2014 [–]

At Java ONE MongoDB developers mentioned they have clients still running on Java 5, thus they cannot fully embrace Java 8 for the time being.

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