Why is being a better Java important for a language? For over a decade, Java has consistently been the world's most widely used programming language. Therefore, a language that gets crowned as being a better Java should automatically attract the attention of the world's single largest community of programmers: the Java programmers.
The TIOBE index is widely referred to as a gauge of the popularity of programming languages. Updated to August 2017, the index graph is reproduced in the following illustration:
The interesting point is that while Java has been the #1 programming language in the world for the last 15 years ...
