> If they'd just put the date in the version field, people would know how old the software is
Does it tell you anything? If this "software" just bumps the date and never provides anything meaningful it is useful to you? It's about the substance.
> doesn't tell you whether Java 27 is old or new. "Java 26.1: What's New?" would
How does 26.1 tell you that? Because you "assume" it is a date? It also still doesn't? How do you know the new 1 isn't 26.100?
> Traditional software versioning helps in the first case: they bump version after a big event
They pretend to. It's given most developers headaches in terms of you have to have something to bump the version so either they make something up or never do it and so fails your test either way.
At the end of the day either:
You care: a quick check won't hurt. It's twice a year.
I disagree. The open web likes bashing it as a scrape goat. Reddit, X/Twitter, etc. It's died down some lately but there were at least a couple a years when this was very out there.
> I would say I'm still in this mindset. Numbers are hard to come by but analysts optimistically put Chinese SaaS market at ~10% of the size of the US.
Exactly it's mindset. I used pulled up 1st result when I used Google [0][1] and it is ~20%. It also forecasts huge growth potential.
> reflecting that SaaS in China is much more services and implementation heavy
I wouldn't read into it too much. There's creative accounting and other things involved. Also what is services and not e.g. "premium support"?
> So it feels like the direct to business SaaS's like Salesforce aren't really there and then then the selling to SaaS titans like Datadog have a much smaller flywheel to work in.
US companies struggle for many other reasons that I rather not go into but definitely not a SaaS nor China issue. I mean yes it is a China issue as in businesses need to adapt to different cultures rather than 1 size fit all but that applies everywhere.
> Interesting how the prevalent opinion until yesterday seems to have been that OpenAI & Anthropic are irreversibly ahead
Not the way you're implying?
The GLM 5.2 hype was blowing way before this. Neither xAI nor Meta have really made a difference in a different way - similar results / similar pricing (to GLM 5.2).
> Chinese companies have always had a very low willingness to pay for software
Are we still left with this mindset? Maybe once upon a time but it has definitely been changing.
There's plenty of B2B and enterprise SaaS companies in China serving the Chinese market. Maybe not as many, but no longer the very low of the past.
I also would not say enterprise were not willing to pay, even many years ago. It's the SME that refused to pay. Large CRM, ERPs etc have always existed.
They did? By social media? According to a lot of social media devs Java is also “dead”.
Having said that the issue is MySql / Mariadb is moving more and more behind commercial products e.g. Galera and Heatwave. Postgres continues to be the open community effort.
But hence the divide you see. Large companies. Real traffic use pragmatic solutions to make money. The tutorial developers and hype does whatever.
> Average go, rust, c++ and c will outperform amazing java programs
Not true. Many benchmarks have shown otherwise. it is at least competitive in many areas.
> and the former will also be way way more easy to run, troubleshoot, interpret logs from
No language will save you from poor logging practices. If you log every debug log it's not Java's problem. No 1 says you have to log the full stack trace if that's your concern. You can configure / strip / do anything. Learn to use the stack.
> I don't particularly like eager new colleagues who come up with (hallucinate) wrong answers.
People are most likely to come up with suggestions and ideas earlier rather than later.
Often they’re not learning what is “correct” but just how to “fit in”. A fresh perspective can be good even if flawed. It can help others spark new ideas and think outside the box.
Does it tell you anything? If this "software" just bumps the date and never provides anything meaningful it is useful to you? It's about the substance.