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.

In the early development of the language, the team focused on creating a tool for mobile devices, but that quickly changed when version 1.0 of Java was released for public consumption in 1996.

Java continues to dominate the developer landscape as the No. 1 programming language in use today. It remains atop the TIOBE Index. According to Simply Hired, since April 2009, Java jobs increased ...

Java still going strong. Java continues to rank among the top three programming languages in the most prominent language popularity indexes—Tiobe, RedMonk, and PyPL.Java had enjoyed a five-year ...

Microsoft -- locked out of Java after losing a lawsuit -- developed its own Java-style language, C#, which became widely used, while most of the advocates moved on to trendier languages: Perl ...

James Gosling, the father of Java, one of the world's most widely used programming languages, has talked with research scientist Lex Fridman about Java's origins and his motivations for creating a ...

Java faces encroachment from dynamic languages such as Ruby in the Web application tier, but Java can be improved, and Java virtual machine functionality can be extended to dynamic languages, said ...

Developed by JetBrains in 2010, Google announced Kotlin as the preferred language for Android in 2019. This year, the tech giant deemed it the technology of choice to share business logic across ...

Oracle has announced the availability of Java 19 and Oracle JDK 19 for developers, the latest versions of what is arguably the world's most popular programming language. JDK (Java Development Kit ...

LONDON: It may sound hard to believe, but a decade ago, Sun’s Java computer language was one of the hottest topics in technology. Netscape was going to write its new applications in Java, Java ...