On May 23, 1995, a seemingly modest programming language called Java was released by Sun Microsystems. At the time, it ...

According to The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language ... tools built around it by both Java enthusiasts and corporate names. For example, native images made for significant improvements ...

[Click on image for larger view.] Virtual Threads (source: Microsoft). More about this feature is available in Oracle's Java Magazine article, "Coming to Java 19: Virtual threads and platform threads.

[Click on image for larger view.] 2022 Java on Visual Studio Code Roadmap (source: Microsoft). At the time, the dev team announced it would work with VMware (which acquired Pivotal in 2019) to improve ...

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must constantly balance its community’s affection for its syntax with the latest trends.