How Java Changed The Development Landscape Entirely As Code Turns 30
The Register, Friday, May 23rd, 2025
It was 30 years ago when the first public release of the Java programming language introduced the world to Write Once, Run Anywhere - and showed devs something cuddlier than C and C++.
Originally called "Oak," Java was designed in the early 1990s by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. Initially aimed at digital devices, its focus soon shifted to another platform that was pretty new at the time - the World Wide Web.
The language, which has some similarities to C and C++, usually compiles to a bytecode that can, in theory, run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM).