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How Much Java in the Linux World?

Posted by simoniker on from the this-much dept.

jg21 writes "Java is 'incredibly heavily used' in the Linux community, according to Sun's James Gosling, one of Java's co-creators. Gosling was debating Stanford's Lawrence Lessig, Apache co-founder Brian Behlendorf, IBM's Rod Smith, and others at JavaOne this week about the possible merits of open-sourcing Java vs the market's demand for continuing compatibility. But Behlendorf seemed not to agree. So who was right, how many Slashdotters are also Java users? Is "incredibly heavily used" an overstatement by Gosling, who after all helped create the language and therefore might be biased?"

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  1. Not just for linux though by WebMasterP · · Score: 5, Informative

    I develop radar software and I'm writing it in Java. This is done for cross-platorm compatibility though, not just because I want to run it on Linux.

  2. Incredible, indeed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was surprised to learn that Java is used more than Perl or C++ in projects listed on freshmeat.net.

  3. Re:C/C++, not java by Pieroxy · · Score: 5, Informative

    How many enterprise web application do you know that is written in C/C++? Cause that's where the money is these days....

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  4. How many projects? by Simon+(S2) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just have a look at the projects hosted on sf.
    There are 12588 projects in Java. Right behind the 13922 in C++ and the 13785 in C.

    So I guess, Java IS used a lot.

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  5. Re:Yes at least in Apache world by wario78 · · Score: 5, Informative
    if you look at their main site, http://www.apache.org , where Jakarta is just one menu item out of 23

    True, but many of those 23 items are former Jakarta projects that have been promoted to become top-level projects. Looking at it that way, 11 (Ant, Avalon, Cocoon, DB, Forrest, Geronimo, James, Maven, Portals, Struts & Web Services) top-level Apache projects are purely Java-based. Gavin