Of indecisive developers was higher, as was the Numbers, it is interesting to see the shift in theĪpproach of JDK adoption. Still, 22% of the respondents report that they plan to decide whether or not to upgrade on a release-by-release basis to see if the newly introduced features are important enough to justify migrating.Ĭomparing the numbers from 2018 to this year’s That is hardly surprising as these versions are released every 3 years, similar to the cadence people are already familiar with in the JDK ecosystem. The plan for most people (55%) is to stick with long term releases.

What is your approach to adopting new JDK releases in production? Or libraries not supporting the latest versions of The ‘other’ category include, application servers Some of the reasons participants explained in Have to wait a bit longer to see the effects of Version? In fact, migrating every six months,ĭoesn’t necessarily give you any real return on The biggest question is, are developers andĬompanies to blame for staying put on an older High, a lot of companies are reluctant to adopt 51% of respondents say that theirĬurrent setup is working fine, so change is not Or willing to migrate every 6 months in order to Introduced over 2 years ago we still do not see What are the reasons why you have not moved to a more recent version? A quarter of theĭevelopers who participated in this survey, are Java, Java 11, released in September 2018, the The first Long Term Support (LTS) version of Production is still very high however, with The number of people working with Java 8 in This year, the numbers are a little different. Holding people back from moving beyond JavaĨ. Saw evidence that these changes were possibly The introduction to Java 9 brought significant We also have a lovely handcrafted pdf report which contains all of this information in one downloadable place.ĭOWNLOAD THE JVM ECOSYSTEM 2020 REPORT! Which Java SE version do you use in production for your main application?

IntelliJ IDEA dominates the IDE market with 62% adoption among JVM developers.

Spring dominates the Java ecosystem with 60% using it for their main applications.

Kotlin overtakes Scala and Clojure, to become the 2nd most popular language on the JVM.

64% of developers report that Java 8 remains the most often used release.

36% of developers switched from Oracle JDK to an alternate OpenJDK distribution, over the last year.

JVM ecosystem report 2020 – Introduction.

We would like to thank everyone who participated and offered their insights on Java and JVM-related topics. Welcome to our annual JVM ecosystem report! This report presents the results of the largest annual survey on the JVM ecosystem, showing results from the survey gathering over 2000 responses in the second half of 2019.

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