In its 20 years, Java is used for building everything from mobile phone apps to video games to enterprise IT applications. The language is designed to run across multiple software platforms.

We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.

Twenty-year-old Java, despite being long in the tooth, is still the most popular programming language for developing enterprise applications. The TIOBE index, which is one measure of the popularity of ...

One of the biggest programming languages has dropped out of the top three, according to one of the lists used to track coders' favourites.

2. The Corporate Dimension The big technology companies have each largely aligned themselves with different languages stacks. Oracle and IBM are aligned with Java (Oracle actually owns Java).

Move over, Java. There’s more to the Java Virtual Machine than just the Java language these days — and the field of languages for JVM is growing.