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Java Still Dominant With Software Developers: Report

New Relic’s 2023 State of Java Ecosystem Report found that long-term support release has witnessed over 4 times growth in one year

Java Still Dominant With Software Developers: Report

Outlook Start-Up Desk

POSTED ON April 28, 2023 1:04 PM

New Relic, the observability platform for engineers, released its second annual State of the Java Ecosystem Report to provide context and insights into the current state of the Java ecosystem. Following the recent release of Java 17, the report finds that the adoption rate for the latest long-term support (LTS) release has grown 430 per cent in one year.

While Java 8 and Java 11 remain the most-used versions, the report demonstrates the platform’s dominance in modern development and growth as improvements with Java 17 are increasingly embraced by developer communities globally. 

“Our study attests to Java’s enduring popularity with software developers in every industry and sector as the ecosystem evolves. With the release of Java 17, the platform remains the programming language of choice to support development and growth in the cloud,” said Peter Marelas, chief architect, APJ, New Relic. 

“For Asia Pacific, home to the world’s largest concentration of developers, Java remains central to how enterprises of all sizes and sectors fuel innovation and growth, while delivering value and better customer experiences. There has never been a more exciting time to uncover and understand how Java is being used to support developers, with new version releases and the rise of containers,” he adds.

“India houses the world’s second-largest developer community in the world and Java continues to be their programming language of choice. Regardless of how you cut it, Java is pivotal to technological innovation simply because of its versatility—from e-commerce platforms, phone apps, social media, blockchain and more, its use cases are numerous. With the explosion of AI (artificial intelligence), ML (machine learning), and cloud-based solutions, the time is right to unravel how Java is at the heart of innovation the world over,” said Ganesh Narasimhadevara, Principal Technologist, APJ, New Relic. 

Key findings from the report include:

  • Java 17 is poised to overtake Java 11 - While Java 11 has held the top spot for two years in a row, the adoption rate of Java 17 far exceeds what the developer world saw when Java 11 was introduced. More than 9 per cent of applications are now using Java 17 in production (up from nearly 2 per cent in 2022), representing a 430 per cent growth rate in one year.
  • Java 14 is the most popular non-LTS version – Uptake of non-LTS Java versions remains extremely low compared to LTS versions in production with only 1.6 per cent of applications using non-LTS Java versions (down from 2.7 per cent in 2022). Out of the non-LTS Java versions in use, Java 14 is still the most popular (0.57 per cent, down from 0.95 per cent in 2022) with Java 15 a close second (0.44 per cent, down from 0.70 per cent in 2022).
  • Amazon is now the most popular JDK vendor – The use of Amazon has increased dramatically to 31 per cent of the market (up from 2.18 per cent in 2020 and 22 per cent in 2022), knocking Oracle off its top spot in 2022 (34 per cent in 2022 to 28 per cent in 2023) to become the most popular JDK vendor. 
  • Containerising applications become mainstream—70 per cent of Java applications reporting to New Relic do so from a container. Engineering teams are moving away from single-core settings in containers, with only 36 per cent in use (down from over 41 per cent in 2022), and moving toward multi-core settings, with over 29 per cent using an eight-core setting (up from over 19 per cent in 2022).
  • Automatic garbage collection a clear favourite - New Relic data shows that 65 per cent of customers using Java 11 or later versions use the G1 Garbage collector. One of G1’s primary benefits is that it clears smaller regions instead of clearing large regions all at once, which optimises the collection process. It also rarely freezes execution and can collect both the young and old generations concurrently, making it a great default for engineers.
     
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