James Gosling invented Java, which is tied with JavaScript as the most popular programming language in the world. (The two languages are actually not very similar at all, except for their names.) ...

The Java programming language emerged roughly 25 years ago, when Smalltalk and C++ dominated. Back then it was easy to argue that the world didn't need another object-oriented programming language.

Learn more. The man who invented the Java programming language while working at Sun Microsystems, James Gosling, was hired by Google. This could be considered a surprise since Google is in an ...