The slides I delivered to the Java Devroom at FOSDEM 2014. Covers the past, present and future of Java. Leverages data from GitHub, LinkedIn, Stack Overflow, etc.

1. What a Long Strange
Trip It’s Been
10.20.2005
February 2014

2. 2011: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Java
2012: Java in the Age of the JVM
2013: What Java Can Learn from JavaScript
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3. 1991
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4. 4
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5. 1993
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6. 6

7. 1994
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8. 8

9. 1995
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10. 10

11. And so on
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12. JDK 1.1 (February 19, 1997)
J2SE 1.2 (December 8, 1998)
J2SE 1.3 (May 8, 2000)
J2SE 1.4 (February 6, 2002)
J2SE 5.0 (September 30, 2004)
Java SE 6 (December 11, 2006)
Java SE 7 (July 28, 2011)
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13. 13

14. What do these have
in common?
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15. Enterprise Apps
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16. And today?
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18. Which means
what?
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19. MOAR JAVA
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20. Ohloh
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21. Indeed
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22. HN
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23. Linkedin
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24. LinkedIn
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25. LinkedIn
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26. RedMonk
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27. So?
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28. Java is [still]
not dead
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29. And people are
figuring that out
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30. 30

31. 31

32. What people have
not figured out [yet]
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33. Java is aggressively
diverse
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34. So go forth and
spread the word
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35. @sogrady
redmonk.com/sogrady
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