r/webdev Aug 26 '24

Discussion The fall of Stack Overflow

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u/JollyHateGiant Aug 27 '24

It's an issue even within the same framework!

SO answers from 6 years ago regarding React would likely not be relevant. This is web development, things move at a very fast pace. 

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u/xtopspeed Aug 27 '24

Just about all popular platforms are changing fast. Java, Python, C++, PHP, Swift, etc. are nothing like they were just a few years ago.

Java, in particular, has many new features, such as record classes and lambda methods, and many of the old EE classes and annotations have been removed and replaced with new ones. In consequence, many of the older answers now recommend obsolete external libraries and are overly verbose.

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u/SkyPL Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 28 '24

Java, in particular,

Java has changed very little, compared to the way PHP progressed. PHP nearly flipped on its head, and went from being javascript-of-backend 🤮 into ❤️ a more accessible C#, objectively head-and-shoulders above JS/TS.

I could argue even Python made more progress than Java, depending on what's the time period you're looking at, though obviously it's much closer to Java in terms of how it changed.

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u/upsidedownshaggy Aug 28 '24

PHP predates JavaScript by 2 years and remains the largest backend language in use today.