Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open Sourcing Product (infoq.com)

Kesha Williams, reporting for InfoQ (shared by numerous readers): The Java Mission Control suite of tools, also known as JMC, was open sourced by Oracle on May 3rd to much applause and excitement from the Java development community. The excitement was replaced with unease as sources reported that the entire JMC development team had been laid off. JMC is a well-known profiling and diagnostics tools suite for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) primarily targeting systems running in production. It is used by developers to gather detailed low-level information about how the JVM and the Java application are behaving. The official open source announcement came on May 5th from Marcus Hirt, a member of the Java Platform Group at Oracle. "Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who helped open source Java Mission Control in the relatively short period of time it was done in." According to Hirt, the intent behind open sourcing JMC was to provide the community with the opportunity to add new features and capabilities to the tools suite.

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Re:An opportunity missed

[Dracolytch]

You asked for a source, I showed you a source that showed Java popularity at about half of what it once was.

I don't have enterprise-specific numbers, but in 2018, the Java job demand is down about 9%
https://www.codingdojo.com/blo...

Fewer people are looking for tutorials and information as compared to a year ago
http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.htm...

Between 2013 and 2017 Java has seen a 4% decline in popularity
https://insights.stackoverflow...

You can call me a troll all you want, but Java has been in decline for a very long time. I'm sure there are areas where it will continue to be viable for the foreseeable future, but to pretend that it's as strong as it was back in it's heyday is just deluding yourself.