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, 20
As a follow up to Christian’s question, here are the usage statistics I could
find for the Java LTS versions
Java 8Java 11. Java 17
33& 56%9%.[1]
31% 28%. 19%. [2]
Unfortunately, Jetbrains has not published a report for 20