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Java’s version growth has been interesting to watch the past few years. I remember thinking “wow 9 is out, now 10, 11 is an LTS, we’ll go to that”. Still on Java 8. Too much other things to do.


> Still on Java 8. Too much other things to do.

Understandable. Depending on your use-case, sure go ahead and stay there.

However keep in mind that you're missing out on a lot of stuff. Java 8 is like literally from 11 years ago.


You could potentially save money by upgrading, but likely 8 will continue to work fine for a long time. That's java for you.


It sure is weird seeing such high numbers. After pivoting away from java for a new job 4 years ago, I still get confused when people from 'old job' talk about how Java 24 is now here. Kinda fun to think about that we'll have Java 30 before 2030 iirc.




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