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HN is an early adopter community. If you want technical community, there are places like https://www.reddit.com/r/systems/ . Edit: Disclaimer: I am one of moderators and this is a blatant advertisement.
IT runs on Java 8. IT in 2030 will not run on Java 8.
IT runs on Java 8. IT in 2030 will not run on Java 8.
It's a biproduct IMO of working on boring problems or supporting morally ambiguous corps. That thing that you need to keep yourself busy and keep going in the rat race.
HN might be pointing the way to the future. Or it might be overly focused on things that will never take the world by storm.
This is not a criticism, but probably an unavoidable by-product of how it works and the audience it attracts.
IT runs on Java 8. IT in 2030 will not run on Java 8.
If it's the later, and seeing how much enterprise has shifted in the last 30 years... if I were a betting fellow I'd say big systems will still be Java 8 in ten years time. Mayyyybe a freshly discovered catastrophic flaw in the jvm causes them to upgrade a version!
HN might be pointing the way to the future. Or it might be overly focused on things that will never take the world by storm.