The Java language will be celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It has also kept the crown of most popular language for the past 5 consecutive years. Billions of devices run Java globally ranging from Blu-Ray players to mobile phones to Java cards.
But it is too early to celebrate victory! The unwashed masses are conspiring to destroy well typed Java code with unmaintainable scripts built using prototype clones. They are assaulting the core fundamentals of our object orientation by disrupting parametric polymorphism. If we let them launch deadly preprocessor directives no code will be safe from this polymorphic invasion!
This presentation will delve into well researched statistics on industry usage of programming languages, emerging trends and their impact on language suitability, and effects of cloud computing on language adoption. War humor aside, the goal is to frame strategic discussions about how Java remains the most widely used language at its 50th anniversary.
Stephen Chin is Senior Director of Developer Relations at JFrog and author of The Definitive Guide to Modern Client Development, Raspberry Pi with Java, and Pro JavaFX Platform. He has keynoted numerous Java conferences around the world including Devoxx, JNation, JavaOne, Joker, and Open Source India. Stephen is an avid motorcyclist who has done evangelism tours in Europe, Japan, and Brazil, interviewing hackers in their natural habitat. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do embedded and robot programming together with his teenage daughter.