Java in the Age of the JVM

10.20.2005

Java in the Age of the JVM

February 2012

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

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One Year Ago

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FOSDEM 2011

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Unanswered, however…

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Java vs JVM

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Language or Platform

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“Almost all of the best Java developers that I know (including many who ran Java user groups, podcasts, started well known projects) would choose to use Scala on a new project rather than Java.” HN user: strlen

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Java = JVM is the new “Java is Dead”

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Some Numbers

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And by some numbers, I mean a lot of numbers

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HN

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LinkedIn Growth

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LinkedIn Members

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GitHub Rankings 1.  Java (5) 2.  Scala (18) 3.  Clojure (22) 4.  Groovy (23)

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GitHub Change

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Ohloh Monthly Contributors

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Ohloh Metrics

OpenJDK Clojure Groovy JRuby Scala

Cost $141M $ .792M $3.12M $9.92M $3.5M

Commits 14707 2192 8012 14515 15020

Committers 160 72 58 120 76

YOY Commits

Increasing Decreasing Stable Stable Stable

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The Wider World

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Language Tiers

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

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Employment Opportunities

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So?

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“Good news, everyone”

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Java-the-language is still growing

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And so are the JVM based languages

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For Example

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The lesson?

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DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE

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Java is [still] not dead

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