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		krzyk on March 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Java 16 Who still uses Java 8 in production? That is a serious risk. I thought everyone moved to 11 already. I use Java 15 in production in 3 projects.

_-david-_ on March 16, 2021 | [–]

I am pretty sure Red Hat, IBM, and probably other enterprisey type companies backport security patches for Java 8.

noisy_boy on March 16, 2021 | | [–]

Tons of folks in financial IT are on 8 - it is pretty stable and very common target for most of the libraries being used.

aogl on March 16, 2021 | [–]

We're still on 8 at <bank>

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