Eclipse is an open-source programming-tool project that long supported Java and now also supports PHP. "I'm looking forward to PHP kicking butt in the marketplace," Milinkovich said.

The second best-paid programming role was full-stack developer, which pays £53,500 on average, rising to £60,300. That's up 5.6% on last year and 18.8% up on 2016.

Java would be extended to foreign programming models such as machine learning models, GPUs, SQL, and differential programming, through an OpenJDK proposal called Project Babylon.

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As of this writing, Vert.x supports at least eight languages that run in the JVM, including Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy, Scala, Kotlin, and PHP. The most popular options are Java and Kotlin.

In the most recent rankings, from June, Java and JavaScript were tied at #1. C++ is tied with Ruby at #6 (PHP, Python and C# are #3, 4 and 5).

In 1995 alone, there appeared Ruby, PHP, Java, and JavaScript. Java almost immediately became popular for mainstream programming due to its portability and large set of built-in libraries.

Twenty-year-old Java, despite being long in the tooth, is still the most popular programming language for developing enterprise applications. The TIOBE index, which is one measure of the popularity of ...