It's been up, it's been down, but the venerable Java closes out 2019 at the top of the TIOBE Index as December's most popular programming language.

Gartner analyst Ann Thomas saw the writing on the wall for Java EE, now Eclipse Jakarta, at least a year before that startling standards-body hand-off. She believes Oracle's new subscription model is ...

Java 13 is due to be released in September 2019. No details are available of any features currently targeted at this release. As with Java 12, it is a feature release, not an LTS release.

Oracle has extended public updates for Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 until at least January 2019. These had been slated to end in September 2018.

“It seemed inconceivable that we could turn a ship as big as Java around that fast,” said Java Language Architect Brian Goetz in his keynote address at Code One 2019 in San Francisco. “There ...