IBM Working On Making Enterprise Java Easier

October 21, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan

Java is important in the enterprise, and getting more important, and IBM wants to help make managing and using Java easier.

At this time last year, there were 26.3 million application developers in the world, and according to CodeNinja, about 20 million of them were reasonably fluent in JavaScript, nearly double the number six years ago. (We are not sure if CodeNinja is counting Node.js as a variant of JavaScript, as it probably should.)

Java, a much older cross-platform language and the lingua franca of business logic in the enterprise, is not as large but is seeing a bit …