Java 8 is your everyday corporate code ...

Didn't Oracle drop support for Java 8 like six years ago? I'm sure there are plenty of companies still running it, but even Apple (a relatively conservative company in this regard) updated to Java 11 when I was there in ~2019.

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		> Java SE subscribers will receive JDK 8 updates until at least December 2030 Not for clients with a commercial license, and there are many.
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		https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8/blob/develop/CHANGELO... Amazon still supporting Java 8
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heisenbit 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It used to but Oracle‘s licensing and probably more important security guidelines from the very top linking CVE scores to mandatory updates got things moving on the last years.

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rileymichael 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this isn't really the case. a lot of legacy code may still be running the version it was developed against, but java 17+ has a sizable share of the ecosystem now that all of the popular libraries require it. spring for example bumped their baseline to jdk 17 in 2022.

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		Doesn't really matter if you're using an old Spring version with the old Java version. Spring offers enterprise support for Spring framework 5 which still supports Java 8. But organizations still using Java 8 will most likely use some kind of Java Enterprise application server with vendor support. IBM will support Websphere with Java 8 until at least 2030 and maybe longer if customers keep paying. I'd guess Oracle has a similar policy.

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krzyk 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nope, we are on Java 25