The familiar coffee cup icon appeared in my Windows task bar. I clicked it, and there it was again, the perennial off-white #Java installer wizard that was going to lead me through the installation of yet another new version of the popular runtime framework.

The wizard started by prompting me about removing out-of-date Java versions from my computer, which I obliged. It could be a security risk, the wizard said. And then surely it would install the new version? But no, the wizard just completed after having confirmed there was no remaining out-of-date version of Java installed on my system.

Man, these times are weird.

I currently have to stick with a much older version because my #systemd free #Devuan is not providing never versions of PHP than 7.0 ... I'm still patient about.

And it is a shame that many programming languages are not so well backwards-compatible like #Java was. Yes, was. Until #Oracle stepped in and messed it up. I cannot launch #Payara application server under latest Java 13 version while the specification says it should. Java saves the binary version number inside the compiled .class file so the JVM will automatically switch to the older standard. It is a shame, what Oracle did here. So I still with Payara 4.1 and #OpenJDK 8 for a little longer.

Yes, off-topic. But still relevant due to incompatible upgrades.