The document discusses the fluctuating popularity of Java, detailing its rise, decline, and resurgence as of early 2010. It references analyses by industry experts and data from community indices, ultimately concluding that while Java's popularity has waned, it remains the most widely used programming language. The document emphasizes that claims of Java being a 'dead end' are unsupported by evidence.

1. The Rise and Fall and Rise of Java
10.20.2005
February 2010

2. http://redmonk.com/public/fosdem.pdf
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3. The Rise
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4. The History
Soure: Tiobe Programming Community Index
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5. The Fall
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6. The Decline
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7. The Analysts
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8. Forrester's Mike Gualtieri
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9. Forrester's John Rymer
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10. The Events
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11. vs
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12. What developers were asking us in 2010
Soure: RedMonk Analytics
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13. vs
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14. Language Fragmentation
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15. The Rise
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21. Java Mentions on Open Source List Traffic
Soure: MarkMail
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25. Has Java Peaked?
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26. Yes
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27. But everything is relative
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28. The evidence simply does not
support the claim that Java is a
“dead end”
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29. Java is no longer
as popular
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30. What Java is is the
most popular
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31. QUESTIONS
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