In its 2021 survey on the State of the Developer Ecosystem report, JetBrains said 72% of respondents to its survey said they use Java 8, 42% said they use Java 11, and next was Java 15 with 14%. ![]() Java 8 continues to be the most popular version of Java in use today. “But I think the people that are on eight are going to learn a lot of lessons from the people that went to 11 already.” “And the people that are on 11, are going to have a lot easier time to go to 17 than the people that are on eight,” she said, referring to the previous LTS version of Java. “I think that what we’re going to see with Java 17 is developers that have been waiting a long time to say, okay, my business is ready to migrate to the next LTS,” said Dalia Abo Sheasha, a Java Developer Advocate at JetBrains. ![]() LTS for the Winīut it’s the LTS part of the news that stands out because many large enterprises, particularly conservative ones, are reluctant to move to the six-month interim releases but are more confident in an LTS version because of the assured support from Oracle. Java 17 delivers thousands of performance, stability, and security updates, as well as 14 new JEPs (JDK Enhancement Proposals) to help developers be more productive, said Georges Saab, vice president of software development for the Java Platform Group at Oracle. With the general availability of Java 17, Oracle not only delivered the latest version of the popular programming language and development platform, but the company also provided developers with the latest long-term support (LTS) release under Java’s six-month release cadence
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