In its 20 years, Java is used for building everything from mobile phone apps to video games to enterprise IT applications. The language is designed to run across multiple software platforms.

Twenty-year-old Java, despite being long in the tooth, is still the most popular programming language for developing enterprise applications. The TIOBE index, which is one measure of the popularity of ...

Java Programming language That may or may not surprise you, but it is the truth. Nevertheless, the Java programming language is very popular and we expect it to be this way for multiple years to come.

The Essential Java language features tour has explored the most popular and commonly used features introduced with every version of Java since JDK 1.4. With this article we come to the end of the ...

Microsoft's increasingly popular JavaScript 'superset' has hit the top 10 for the first time in developer analyst RedMonk's influential programming language popularity rankings.

You'll find millions of apps in the Google Play store, many of them written using the powerful, stable, workhorse programming language Java. If it were a car, Java would feature a fast, reliable ...

The Java language includes various behaviors that may puzzle newcomers to the language. This post examines three such behaviors involving arrays, bytes and shorts, and private fields and methods.

For the first time since 2012, Java is not in one of the two top spots in RedMonk's programming language popularity list.

Java meanwhile is used to develop a number of desktop and mobile applications. Java used to be the primary language used for Android development, until Google announced that Kotlin would be its ...