Shoot, I got paid to write a brand new Java 8 application… in 2020
My team was just handed a Java 1.2 codebase, we are deploying it (mostly as is) to production next week.
Make sure you enable the right flags on the JVM, such as this one:
But why?
In short: Money
Long story: Legacy
The really long story: They added a bunch of stuff in that version and it’s the last LTS before they removed a bunch of other stuff and a lot of companies are just too lazy to update their 10 year old crappy software.
The end.
I thought the main reason was that they changed the license
That might be true but there’s OpenJDK so they still don’t have that as much of an excuse
Minecraft Java edition
If you rebuild the JVM inside Minecraft is it then Java Minecraft Edition? 🤔
Oracle’s incompetence.
According to https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support-roadmap.html, Java 8 Extended Support will end in December 2030
The universe ends December 2030
With about 5 asterisks next to it, and indefinite sustaining support. I don’t think Java 8 is going to die even after the universe ends.
They’ll probably extend it at least through the 2038 bug.
I miss SrGrafo…
Where did he go
Still on Reddit I believe.
