

It is also known as the high-level, robust, and secure programming language for programmers, developers, and data professionals. The object-oriented programming language is known for supporting modernization and transformation efforts. This programming language is focused on managing business needs and being the best choice for security as well as cloud development needs. It is focused on continuing the development platform for choices for enterprises as well as developers. It helps to reduce costs and shortens development time frames while driving innovation and enhancing application devices. Java is one of the top programming languages and the development platform for universal programmers and developers. It is great that on the JVM, in one large ecosystem, there is such a spectrum of language options.” JVM developers have many options for great languages and a lot of tooling overlap (build tools, IDEs, production/introspection tools, etc.). Both Kotlin and Scala have great interoperability with Java, enabling ecosystem sharing. Kotlin is more of an incremental step for existing Java developers having good support for some Functional paradigms like immutability and sum types but lacking some of the “Monadic” features that Scala has. Scala is great for developers wanting to take Functional Programming to some extremes. But I’ve also been able to work with more modern JVM languages over the past ten years, including Scala and Kotlin.

To which he replied, “I began using the Java programming language 25 years ago and think it is still a great language. Recently, InfoQ asked James about the state of JVM languages in 2022. In one episode, Eckel spoke of “people who are still trapped in the Java world.” Ward agreed and called default mutability in Java the “trillion-dollar mistake” (referencing the “billion-dollar mistake” of NullPointerExceptions). He hosts the “Happy Path Programming” podcast with Bruce “Thinking in Java” Eckel.

James Ward is a Java Champion and Kotlin Product Manager at Google. Java is still a great language, but Kotlin is developing faster as an incremental alternative, while Scala takes Functional Programming to some extremes.
