If you ask James Gosling, he's always described it as a blue collar language. I think the initial design of the language was very practical. Ritter: It's a number of things, obviously. What do you think it is that's kept Java so vibrant and popular for all this time? Humble: Last year, we celebrated 25 years of Java. Then, when I worked for IBM, 14 years ago, I just only worked with Java. I think I self-taught myself with Java, and also, I learned in the University. I work on the open source project MicroProfile, under Jakarta, basically design the specifications for doing Java based cloud native applications. I'm the Liberty Cloud Native Architect and also advocate. If you're interested in compilation or garbage collection, or low-overhead profiling, then OpenJDK is the place to be. What drew me to work on Java on the OpenJDK was the sheer technological achievement of it. I've been working with Java on and off for almost 20 years. I'm technical lead for OpenJDK Project Loom at Oracle. That's the longest I've ever worked anywhere. I've been doing this at JetBrains for six years now. Because I was like, there's this job where I can tell people cool stuff that I've learned about Java. It was then that I realized that I didn't just want to be a Java programmer, I wanted to take everything that I learned working with LMAX working in the London Java community user group, and help other people coming behind me as well, so share a lot of Java knowledge, which is how I ended up becoming a developer advocate. I got involved with the London Java community. There, we were doing loads of cool stuff with pair programming and with open source stuff. Then I worked at a company called LMAX, which is a financial platform in London. I was a Java developer in a range of different companies for 10-plus years. I have been doing Java since I was at university. My focus is more on Java the language and Java the platform. Showing them inside IntelliJ IDEA, of course.
I tend to do a lot of telling people what's new in Java, what's great about Java. For a long time, I was the only Java advocate at JetBrains. I am the lead Java advocate at JetBrains.
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Then for the last five and a half years, I've been at Azul basically doing the same thing for a long time, which is just to promote the Java platform and help people understand how to use it. It got acquired by Oracle and spent five years there. I did follow it all the way through the Sun years. Very shortly after that, it became clear that Java was going to be something quite big.
Originally, I didn't join to do Java, I joined to do Solaris the operating system. When did I start Java? Way back in 1996 when I joined Sun Microsystems. I'd like to start by asking the panelists if they could briefly introduce themselves, and maybe also tell us what drew you all personally to come and work with or on the Java platform? I'm an independent technology consultant and also managing editor for Conissaunce consultancy firm, Container Solutions.
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