Java is as much a platform as it is a language. Android's development language is syntactically identical to Java, but since it compiles to Dalvik bytecode and has different libraries, it's not ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

One interpretation of this graph shows Java (blue) being overtaken by C (black) over the course of the decade. What this interpretation belies is the fact that Java and the C family (C, C++, and C#) ...