10.20.2005

How Java Got Its Mojo Back

November 2011

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“As a citizen primarily of the Web, I can’t help but notice that in recent years, its interesting bits (Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, 37 Signals, Ravelry) are largely not being built in Java.” Tim Bray, Ongoing, July 2010

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Forrester's Mike Gualtieri

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Java Turns Grey

Source: Statwing

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vs C/C++

Java vs C / C++ monthly commits [Ohloh]

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True, But…

Java vs JavaScript monthly commits [Ohloh]

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And this

Java vs JavaScript monthly contributors [Ohloh]

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And this

Java vs JavaScript monthly projects [Ohloh]

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Language Fragmentation

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The 2013 Landscape

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The 2013 Jobs

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The List Traffic Trending

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The Projects

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The Relevance

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The Role

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The Awesome UI

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The Usage

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Has Java Peaked?

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When Web Companies Grow Up

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Hadoop is Eating the World

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Java is Still The Engineer’s

Choice

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Yet Frameworks

Matter

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The RedMonk Top 5

1. JavaScript 2. Java 3. PHP 4. Python 5. Ruby

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The RedMonk Top 5

1. JavaScript (Node.js) 2. Java 3. PHP 4. Python (Django) 5. Ruby (Rails)

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Compare with

InfoQ: “Top 20 Web Frameworks for the JVM,” 10.9.12

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The Paradox of Choice

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FRAMEWORKS ARE

EVOLVING

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Going small

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Hacker News

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State of the Stacks

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vs

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Brains

sss

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QUESTIONS