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4 sourced facts about the Java programming language, each with the context behind the number. 4 more are in today's round and appear here after it closes.

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In the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, what share of developers said they'd used Java in the past year?

Answer30.3%

Java remains a top choice for large businesses, banks and Android app backends.

Source: Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2024 (2024) survey.stackoverflow.co

By 2020, what share of the top 1,000 apps on the Google Play Store were written in Kotlin rather than Java?

Answer70%

Kotlin runs on the same Java Virtual Machine and can work alongside Java code, easing the switch for Android developers.

Source: Google, cited in Wikipedia: Kotlin (programming language) (2020) en.wikipedia.org

Expert level

Which Java version became a Long-Term Support (LTS) release in 2023?

AnswerJava 21

Oracle releases a new LTS version of Java roughly every two years for businesses that want long-term stability.

Source: Wikipedia: Java (programming language) (2023) en.wikipedia.org

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