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Java in the Age of the JVM
                   
10.20.2005
February 2012
http://redmonk.com/public/fosdem2012.pdf




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One Year Ago



      3
FOSDEM 2011




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5
Unanswered, however…



         6
Java vs JVM



     7
Language or Platform



          8
“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




 13
LinkedIn Growth




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LinkedIn Members




        15
GitHub Rankings
1.  Java (5)
2.  Scala (18)
3.  Clojure (22)
4.  Groovy (23)

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GitHub Change




      17
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          Increasing   Decreasing        Stable   Stable   Stable
Commits




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The Wider World




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Language Tiers




      21
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?



     29
DON’T BELIEVE THE
      HYPE

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Java is [still] 
  not dead

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Twitter: sogrady
Web: redmonk.com/sogrady



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