Many people, including former Java devotees, contend that the rising use of scripting languages and the so-called LAMP stack of open-source components comes at the expense of Java.

But Java is still hugely popular and widely used in the enterprise, according to Oracle, which notes it is used by over 69% of full-time developers worldwide. Java 15 represents Oracle's ...

Our recent report and survey found that 98% of businesses use Java in their software applications or infrastructure, and 57% of those organizations indicate that Java is the backbone of most of ...

@chordoflife, Java is behind Eclipse and Netbeans, so I use it quite a bit. A fair amount of open-source scientific software uses Java, too, such as Fiji for image analysis, etc.

Java, which turns 30 this month, remains one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. Launched in 1995 and employed by many of the largest enterprises globally, Java is used to ...