The Java programming language emerged roughly 25 years ago, when Smalltalk and C++ dominated. Back then it was easy to argue that the world didn't need another object-oriented programming language.

Java ranked fourth in the December 2022 Tiobe index of programming language popularity, the lowest Java has ranked in the history of the index. C++ ranks higher than Java in the Tiobe language ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

A year ago Java was the most popular programming language among developers, but it's now jostling for second place with Python. Software firm Tiobe's December 2020 programming language rankings place ...