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10.20.2005
Java in the Age of the JVM
February 2012
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http://redmonk.com/public/fosdem2012.pdf
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One Year Ago
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FOSDEM 2011
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Unanswered, however…
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Java vs JVM
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Language or Platform
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“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
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LinkedIn Growth
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LinkedIn Members
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GitHub Rankings 1. Java (5) 2. Scala (18) 3. Clojure (22) 4. Groovy (23)
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GitHub Change
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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 Commits
Increasing Decreasing Stable Stable Stable
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The Wider World
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Language Tiers
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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?
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DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE
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Java is [still] not dead
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