Article for The New Stack by Darryl Taft
The Java programming language celebrated its 30th birthday last month. The language that promised to let developers “write once, run anywhere” has not only survived but thrived through three decades of technological advancement.
From the early days of mobile phones to today’s cloud native applications and emerging AI landscape, Java has proven its staying power in ways that even its creators might not have anticipated.
I reached out to industry veterans, developers, platform architects and thought leaders who have witnessed and played a part in Java’s evolution firsthand to understand what has made this language so enduring — and what challenges and opportunities lie ahead.
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Eric Newcomer, an analyst at Intellyx, noted Java’s pioneering role as “the first ‘write once, run anywhere’ language” and “the first widely used object-oriented language,” positioning it for the enterprise adoption that would follow, he said.
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