Pivotal's Matt Stine, who was raised on Java, has become an advocate for the Google-built Go language. Find out why one developer chooses Go for building system-level software.

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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.

Go has since has been used to build popular projects such as Docker. The top five languages remained stable across the period, with Java leading, followed by C, C++, C#, and Python.

Lest you think Cisco’s data represents an aberration, Java has led the way as the No. 1 vulnerability since at least June 2010, when Microsoft reported Java overtook Adobe PDFs as the top concern.