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Java Alive

Java
KindProgramming language
Appeared1995
StatusAlive
CreatorJames Gosling / Sun Microsystems
FamilyC
Sourcedev.java ↗

Write once, run anywhere — Gosling's enterprise answer to C++ that built the JVM ecosystem and never really left the server room.

Influenced by Smalltalk C++ Eiffel
Created by James Gosling Sun Microsystems
Influenced JavaScript C# Scala Kotlin

Gosling's Oak became Java (1995) — 'write once, run anywhere' via the JVM — and Sun's marketing made it the enterprise standard: garbage collection, bytecode, applets, and J2EE's empire.\n\nAndroid, Hadoop, Kafka, and most of the backend run on it; it is the most-deployed language in the enterprise.

Timeline

1995Java 1.0
2004Java 5 — generics
2014Java 8 — lambdas

Sources

  1. dev.java/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)