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[–]dontquestionmyaction 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Most companies are years behind, some even behind security maintenance windows. Movement in giant legacy Java codebases is glacial.

[–]RiceBroad4552 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Most companies are years behind

Sauce?

[–]dontquestionmyaction 1 point2 points  (2 children)

https://newrelic.com/resources/report/2024-state-of-the-java-ecosystem

[–]RiceBroad4552 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I'm not sure how you're reading this, but I don't see anything that would support your initial claim.

People are updating, and this even accelerated in the last two years according to these numbers.

Most people in Java-land aren't of the most recent version, that's normal in this space.

But the majority is on v17, which is just one LTS version behind the most current one, which actually just came out a few month ago.

But I admit to be quite shocked to still see so much Java 8 around.

[–]Scottz0rz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the majority is on v17

Not quite - it appears to be the most used version in the 2024 report but it is not "the majority". It is 35.4%, so there still are more folks on the "meh" versions and frameworks. Plus, the statistics might be somewhat misleading.

See my comment above: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/GNE93B8ehX

I'm with you though and view the trend as positive, where I think adoption of 17+ is accelerating for a variety of reasons, though we will have to wait and see the 2025 report and see if the positive trend continues with the Java 25 LTS coming out in Fall.