It was never the sexiest language, but for decades Java has been a mainstay of modern technology, and it's going to be with us for years to come.

Here's what Meta's developers have learned from moving their code base from the Java programming language over to Kotlin.

On May 23, 1995, a seemingly modest programming language called Java was released by Sun Microsystems. At the time, it introduced the catchy promise of "write once, run anywhere" - a proposition ...

June 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Java, the language that helped define modern enterprise computing. If you had told me in 1995 that devs would still be writing and shipping production code in ...

In brief: According to the Tiobe index of language popularity, the gap between Java and C# is so small that if the current trends remain unchanged, C# will overtake Java in about two months. Of ...

The JCP is how new features, new specifications and new APIs are added to the Java programming language. Over the past 20 years, the JCP has accomplished the following: Added over 1000 members.