Java in the Age of the JVM

Java in the Age of the JVM 10.20.2005February 2012

http://redmonk.com/public/fosdem2012.pdf 2

One Year Ago 3

FOSDEM 2011 4

Unanswered, however… 6

Java vs JVM 7

Language or Platform 8

“Almost all of the best Javadevelopers that I know (includingmany who ran Java user groups,podcasts, started well knownprojects) would choose to use Scalaon a new project rather than Java.” HN user: strlen 9

Java = JVM is the new “Java is Dead” 10

Some Numbers 11

And by some numbers,I mean a lot of numbers 12

LinkedIn Growth 14

LinkedIn Members 15

GitHub Rankings1.  Java (5)2.  Scala (18)3.  Clojure (22)4.  Groovy (23) 16

GitHub Change 17

Ohloh Monthly Contributors 18

Ohloh Metrics OpenJDK Clojure Groovy JRuby ScalaCost $141M $ .792M $3.12M $9.92M $3.5MCommits 14707 2192 8012 14515 15020Committers 160 72 58 120 76YOY Increasing Decreasing Stable Stable StableCommits 19

The Wider World 20

Language Tiers 21

Tiobe Rankings1.  Java (1)2.  Groovy (36)3.  Scala (51*)4.  Clojure (NR)5.  JRuby (NR) 22

Employment Opportunities 23

So? 24

“Good news, everyone” 25

Java-the-language is still growing 26

And so are the JVM based languages 27

For Example 28

The lesson? 29

DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE 30

Java is [still] not dead 31

Twitter: sogradyWeb: redmonk.com/sogrady 32

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