Oracle Announces Java SE 9 and Java EE 8 (oracle.com)

rastos1 writes: Oracle has announced the general availability of Java SE 9 (JDK 9), Java Platform Enterprise Edition 8 (Java EE 8) and the Java EE 8 Software Development Kit (SDK). JDK 9 is a production-ready implementation of the Java SE 9 Platform Specification, which was recently approved together with Java EE 8 in the Java Community Process (JCP). Java SE 9 provides more than 150 new features, including a new module system and improvements that bring more scalability, improved security, better performance management and easier development to the world's most popular programming platform.

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Re:Maybe most popular...

[jellomizer]

When faced to make an "Enterprise Level Product" and you have to pick a Language to code it in, you have few choices that will get past the execs.
You have .NET, Java, C/C++ The other languages out there from Node.JS, Python, Ruby, PHP, Rust... Either do not have "Enterprise Support" (whatever that means) and in general these lanagues the Execs never heard of them before and really don't want a lecture to explain it to them.
Then these big name languages have fancy IDE interlaces that can make frameworks from UML graphics and a bunch of crazy expensive addons that allow the sales men who such executives trust more then their own staff .

So with all this You have .NET which is Java only for Windows. Then you have C/C++ which often will take a lot more effort to build, and there is a heck of a lot of testing needed for every new platform.

So Java unfortunately is still a good choice with the restrictions of the corporate environment.