So, who's still on jdk 7 or 8?
Man I'm so out of date!
When did they come out of so many versions?
And imagine the Java docs!
Now I know how Javascript devs feel

still on 8, slowly migrating where needed to 11. I feel you, it has become a pain

Still on 8, moving to 11 slowly, I think now Oracle has decided to release a version every 6 months

Still on 8

InteiJ report about Java 11 vs. 12: "No New language features"

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Why did Oracle change the release cycle? They found out that, in contrast to other languages, it was to hard to develop new language features (and that they are getting used by devs) if a new version is only released after two years (or so) with support times of five years (or so).
Now, they will release a new one every year (or so) with support only shortly the release of the next one.
On a side note, Oracle charges now for support if companies want to have a bit longer support or want to use Oracle JRE at all.

*slowly raises hand in shame*

@lxmcf You're not alone anyways lol

I'm too afraid of my good old 1.7.10 minecraft forge server and client with ~200 mods not running properly on java 9+.👀

@nitwhiz how long have you been maintaining that server for? o:

@Weon i won't call it maintaining. More like having it running for when i want to play. So my computer doesn't need to generate all the stuff.

It's an on/off relationship between me and the well known setup, for good 3-5 years now. x)

I just dropped everything when 9 came out, now im mostly on 11

Still on 8. No plans of upgrading at all

im on 8 mostly because of javafx. got so manny errors that ddnt exist before when i tried it on 11 coz they decided to seperate it

I got shocked as well, so I stopped using java until I need it in the future

@aerendyl that's one way to deal with it.

@srivmanu I didn't need to use it that much anyway, but I might come back one day.

@aerendyl cool.. So python for the meanwhile?

@srivmanu actually php, it's lame but I need it for a while, but my side projects are always python.

@aerendyl ummm.. Ok..

Most of the components migrated to 8 just in last couple of months. But still have two on java 7. In fact one of them was released today being compiled on 7 🤐. On the other hand actually using java 8 features is very slow in the team 😑

I'm really glad that I'm not the only one.
First things first. Python projects get rebased first... Jan 1 deadline!