Before I dive into considering why you should be a Java developer, let me give a brief history of the Java programming language. Java was started as a

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Before I dive into considering why you should be a Java developer, let me give a brief history of the Java programming language.

Java was started as a project by the sun micro-system, and the first version was initiated between 1991 - 1995 by a team of engineers which includes; James Gosling, Patrick Naughton, Chris Warth, Ed Frank, and Mike Sheridan.

The primary goal behind Java was to be platform independence, which means you can write a Java program once and run it everywhere, this at the time was a huge paradigm shift from the earliest programming language like C which was platform-dependent.

This was how the C model worked at the time, which was you the "developer" writing your source code file and then giving it to a compiler which the compiler will compile/convert to an executable file or a machine code which will then run on a machine which could be your personal computers or phone devices. The problem with this model was that different types of machines had different machine-level codes, e.g a machine code that would run on Linux will not run on windows, although this was not just related to the operating system alone, there was a bunch of other stuff, like the processors' architecture, the number of bits involved, etc.

Imagine as a developer back then, you will need to create an executable file for different operating systems if you want your code to run on all machines, programmers are lazy, so they don't have that time.