This included: Compared to programming languages like C++, which sees much more use, Java is an excellent way to break into coding and programming thanks to its shallower learning curve.

Author of Cracking the Coding Interview and The Google Resume, If there are two programmers who are equally good, but one knows Java and the other knows C++, Google would hire both. Really.

JavaScript, Python, Java, TypeScript and C# are the most widely used programming languages in GitHub ... place and was pipped by low-level language C++. Shell, C and Ruby rounded out the top ...