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[–] 64 points 1 year ago

somewhere off in the distance i hear a familiar jingle: '3 billion strong.. and growing'

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Shoot, I got paid to write a brand new Java 8 application… in 2020

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    [–] 39 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    that statistic of java running on 3 billion devices is because of j2me phones

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    all the minecraft players still using java 8 for pvping on 1.8.9

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (13 children)
  • [–] [S] 65 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It was true until Minecraft 1.17, now it requires at least Java 17

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Only reason I still have Java 8 is because Pixelmon is stuck at 1.16.5

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Pixelmon has been on 1.20.1+ for quite some time now.. currently it’s on 1.21.1.

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  • Unless you play modded 1.7.10, which has a mod (LWJGL3ify) that has had some sort of ungodly work done to allow it to run with modern java versions.

    GregTech: New Horizons is a modpack that famously uses it (and I can confirm the modpack runs better than it has any right to do)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Should have asked about CoBOL

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)