Slides from my FOSDEM 2012 Java devroom talk.

1. Java in the Age of the JVM
10.20.2005
February 2012

2. http://redmonk.com/public/fosdem2012.pdf
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3. One Year Ago
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4. FOSDEM 2011
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5. 5

6. Unanswered, however…
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7. Java vs JVM
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8. Language or Platform
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9. “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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10. Java = JVM is the new
“Java is Dead”
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11. Some Numbers
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12. And by some numbers,
I mean a lot of numbers
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13. HN
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14. LinkedIn Growth
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15. LinkedIn Members
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16. GitHub Rankings
1. Java (5)
2. Scala (18)
3. Clojure (22)
4. Groovy (23)
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17. GitHub Change
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18. Ohloh Monthly Contributors
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19. 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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20. The Wider World
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21. Language Tiers
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22. Tiobe Rankings
1. Java (1)
2. Groovy (36)
3. Scala (51*)
4. Clojure (NR)
5. JRuby (NR)
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23. Employment Opportunities
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24. So?
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25. “Good news, everyone”
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26. Java-the-language
is still growing
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27. And so are the JVM
based languages
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28. For Example
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29. The lesson?
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30. DON’T BELIEVE THE
HYPE
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31. Java is [still]
not dead
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32. Twitter: sogrady
Web: redmonk.com/sogrady
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