Java, the programming language, isn’t even 30 years old yet, but the history of the word goes back several centuries, to a time when coffee trees were plentiful in Indonesia and people were ...

Java is a popular programming language that every programmer should learn. This article explains much of what you need to know.

May 30, 2025 at 3:46 a.m. PT Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Some programming languages, such as Rust, Go, or TypeScript, are cool. Others, including Cobol and Java, are regarded as dull.

Java ranked fourth in the December 2022 Tiobe index of programming language popularity, the lowest Java has ranked in the history of the index.

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 ...

Ever since the platform-neutral Java programming language was first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995, Sun has tried to walk a fine line between soliciting community development through ...

The direction the Java programming language took as the Green Project grew beyond platform independence and into visions of interconnected TV set-top boxes, and eventually into cross-platform support ...