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Yes, Java Still Matters in the AI Era

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April 08, 2026

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Mary Branscombe
14h

Powerful, scalable, reliable, cost efficient – and ready to be your next AI language? I'll admit I hadn't been thinking as much about Java for writing AI systems, just the inevitable data and workflow backend, but the frameworks are there. Plus AI coding tools are good enough for Java modernisation

In the AI Age, Java is More Relevant Than Ever

In the AI Age, Java is More Relevant Than Ever

Count Java out of the AI race at your own risk. The runtime is fast, the frameworks are ready and the enterprise muscle is real.


https://thenewstack.io/in-the-ai-age-java-is-more-relevant-than-ever/
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Mary Branscombe
14h

it was interesting to talk to @brunoborges.bsky.social about the state of coding assistants for Java; since it's the language that powers backend systems that enterprises are notably conservative about updating. If they could switch to being up to date by default, that's a big change in SDLs

In the AI Age, Java is More Relevant Than Ever

In the AI Age, Java is More Relevant Than Ever

Count Java out of the AI race at your own risk. The runtime is fast, the frameworks are ready and the enterprise muscle is real.


https://thenewstack.io/in-the-ai-age-java-is-more-relevant-than-ever/

Continuous modernisation is one of the ideas I'm going to be looking out for this year; along with 'continuous security audit by AI tools internal or external'.

In the AI Age, Java is More Relevant Than Ever
Count Java out of the AI race at your own risk. The runtime is fast, the frameworks are ready and the enterprise muscle is real.
https://thenewstack.io/in-the-ai-age-java-is-more-relevant-than-ever/
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