As a follow up to Christian’s question, here are the usage statistics I could
find for the Java LTS versions
Java 8 Java 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
