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How is Java Doing?

At this time of year surveys summing up the year bombard us from all sides. Here we have Baeldung's take on the state of Java In 2019.
Java continues on, despite being heralded as the 'old horse' of the programming language collective.
It is still at number one in the Tiobe Index, is fighting with Javascript and Python for second place on both PYPL and RedMonk, and is third as the most popular language on GitHub by repository contributors (according to GitHub Octoverse).
It's that timelessness that means that Udacity, which mostly specializes in trendy languages, frameworks and topics such as Kotlin, React, Data Science, Android, AI and Autonomous Vehicles acknowledges the need for a Java Developer Nanodegree, as we outlined in Enrollment Open for New Java Developer Nanodegree where we reported that:

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