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Picking a popular technology makes our developer life easier. My free, quarterly newsletter measures Java technology popularity by following the money: job ads in 59 countries and online course purchases by 60+ million developers. I also analyze developer interest with Google searches and developer engagement with questions at Stack Overflow.

Java Tech Popularity Index Q1/2024 (May 1, 2024)

Read the index to see all scorecards, all details & my recommendations. Below’s a sneak peak.

Updates for Q1/2024: Developer job ads down 32% year over year, Stack Overflow questions dropped 55% since ChatGPT. I now recommend IntelliJ Community Edition because many AI code assistants don’t run in Eclipse. Job ads for Quarkus hit an all-time high.

I use scorecards to show the current standings & trends of the top three technologies in each area. The number two is 100%, but not on the card. The leader (left) and number three (right) are. The red arrows show the trend vs. the number two. Below are two examples.

How does Java compare to its competition? Here is Python (left) and Java (right) vs. JavaScript (100%), not on the card. The arrows show the trend vs. JavaScript.

Python and Java hold steady or increase in all categories, except for a slight decline of Java in Stack Overflow.

And what about back-end frameworks? Here is Spring Boot (left) and Quarkus (right) vs. Jakarta EE (100%), not on the card. The arrows show the trend vs. Jakarta EE.

Spring Boot pulls away from Jakarta EE everywhere except for job ad mentions. Quarkus gains on Jakarta EE everywhere.

Read the index to see all scorecards, all details & my recommendations!

I also help you get started with technologies that are important for us Java developers.

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• I’ve been a full-stack Java developer for 25 years. And I still write code nearly every single day.
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