Sustaining a place in the list of top five programming languages every year, in the era where programming languages and technologies are booming, is not a simple task. And Java has accomplished this pretty easily. This year, 2019, marks the 24th anniversary of the multi-faceted programming language. Still, the craze it carries remains unbeaten!
While it has its birth name as Oak, named after an oak tree that stood outside its creator James Gosling’s office, later called as Green, ‘Java’ is the third name for the programming language Java. Designed in line with C/C++ in style and syntax, Java became popular very soon among the developer and programming community owing to many of its unique and useful features.
As we move ahead in this blog post, let us deep dive into the reasons why Java is popular among the developer and programmer community, and where it has beaten its counterparts.
An Object-Oriented Programming Language
Object-oriented programming (OOP), in itself, has changed the way of programming that existed prior to its inventions. And Java, which has been designed entirely having OOP at its core, just made this concept much more attractive.
Programmers love to work with OOP because it offers clear modular structure, makes code reusable, eases maintenance of the code and speeds up the process of development. OOP also increases the productivity of the programmer and offers flexibility to choose from rich inbuilt libraries.
Java provides abstraction, encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritance, besides offering many design patterns and best practices to programmers. Also, managing object dependency is easier with the dependency injection principle of Java. The code designed in Java is robust because Java objects contain no such references to data which are external to themselves.
An Omnipresent
As per the latest stats, there are more than 3 billion devices that are running primarily on Java. Android apps, web applications, software tools such as Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, and NetBeans IDE, scientific applications such as natural language processing are all being developed in Java.
Programmers prefer Java for such design and applications because Java eases designing of scalable solutions and provides high-level concurrency tools than any other programming languages. This is good news to those who are aspiring to learn Java because learning Java opens up opportunities to choose from a myriad of proven career paths.
User-Friendly Language
For a beginner, learning Java means moving in two stages — learning Core Java and then mastering the Advanced Java. It means Java provides a simpler learning path. Also, if a user is familiar with installing JDK and setting up Classpath, the rest is just a cakewalk. As James Gosling mentioned, “Java is C++ without the guns, clubs, and knives”, which means if the learner has a basic knowledge of C and C++, it takes lesser time to master Java.
The syntax of Java is in fluent English which makes it easier for the learner to understand and remember, too.
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