somewhere off in the distance i hear a familiar jingle: '3 billion strong.. and growing'
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Shoot, I got paid to write a brand new Java 8 application… in 2020
that statistic of java running on 3 billion devices is because of j2me phones
According to https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support-roadmap.html, Java 8 Extended Support will end in December 2030
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.
Minecraft Java edition
It was true until Minecraft 1.17, now it requires at least Java 17
And Microsoft ended up providing their own compiled version of OpenJDK to get around the non-commercial use part of the licence to do it.
Only reason I still have Java 8 is because Pixelmon is stuck at 1.16.5
Pixelmon has been on 1.20.1+ for quite some time now.. currently it’s on 1.21.1.
That's just the beta, bunch of stuff broken there. The stable version where everything works is still 1.16.5
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)
If you rebuild the JVM inside Minecraft is it then Java Minecraft Edition? 🤔
I miss SrGrafo…

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