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 ...

New programming language popularity reports are out, showing perennial leaders Python and Java holding on to the No. 1 spots in two indices. IEEE Spectrum published its fifth annual interactive ...