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minus-squarecarrylex@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23 months agoIn 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.
minus-squareBlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoIt was true until Minecraft 1.17, now it requires at least Java 17
minus-squareconorab@lemmy.conorab.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoAnd Microsoft ended up providing their own compiled version of OpenJDK to get around the non-commercial use part of the licence to do it.
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.
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.