How is this even comparable?
Not only React changed completely almost overnight, but the changes in the methodology were fundamental.
Not only React changed completely almost overnight, but the changes in the methodology were fundamental.
If they had just made a different project, we’d still be talking about the same thing. You would still be complaining that things changed and you didn’t feel like bothering to learn a new thing.
But lambdas and everything coming in project amber, yeah, there will increasingly be many styles of Java out there.
Based on my experience only once CompletableFuture was added to Java did the Future interface really start getting used in mass. Before that, there were other libs that implemented Future like things (Rx, Guava, Netty, etc) but they were not adopted across the board.
The transition to Java 8 was night and day! Roughly on par with the React Hooks transition.