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 wrote:
> 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 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
>
>
