FWIW, at work, we have been conservative with Java version requirements for a long time, mostly because some of our customers run on old school hardware. So it's been Java 8 forever. But, we have have just completed the migration to Java 17 for the three products I work on.
Gary On Thu, Nov 2, 2023, 1:20 AM Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > As a follow up to Christian’s question, here are the usage statistics I > could find for the Java LTS versions > > Java 8 Java 11. Java 17 > 33& 56% 9%. [1] > 31% 28%. 19%. [2] > > Unfortunately, Jetbrains has not published a report for 2023 - > https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/java/. > > FWiW, I tend to believe New Relic’s numbers over JRebel since it was > measured from applications actually using their product instead of a > survey, but I do wish there was a third survey to compare them to. > I am expecting that the usage of Java 17 is going to grow very quickly and > Java 8 will likely go below my 10% threshold by 2025. > > Ralph > > > 1. https://newrelic.com/resources/report/2023-state-of-the-java-ecosystem > 2. https://www.jrebel.com/success/java-developer-productivity-report-2023 > >
