Meh.... "if it ain't broken, don't fix it." I (and I guess many other people, looking at JVM adoption numbers) do prefer a very stable and proven environment.

Meh.... "if it ain't broken, don't fix it." I (and I guess many other people, looking at JVM adoption numbers) do prefer a very stable and proven environment. I don't want to discover that "It would work/perform on 15 if only this and this was changed..." and re-test everything two times a year. So yes, I can afford to run what I know versus debugging all night to save one second of startup time. [Source] From last year's Snyk report: - 1 in 4 developers use the Java SE 11 in production - 2 in 3 developers use Java SE 8 in production - 50% of developers use OpenJDK distributions in production