Madiator's Corneron 3 billion devices
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somewhere off in the distance i hear a familiar jingle: '3 billion strong.. and growing'
that statistic of java running on 3 billion devices is because of j2me phones
I wonder if they're counting the SIMs in smartphones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card
Also on Blu-Rays
https://www.oracle.com/technical-resources/articles/javabluray.html
"the very popular PlayStation 3 gaming console"
And that was in 2013. Weren't most of those devices feature phones?
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:
B-but why?
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
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
imagine if this was the date
Imagine if it was the cause!?
They'll probably extend it at least through the 2038 bug.
all the minecraft players still using java 8 for pvping on 1.8.9
Should have asked about CoBOL
I miss SrGrafo…
Where did he go
Still on Reddit I believe.