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Java first appeared on 23 May 1995 and is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming (OOP) language. It is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible and the general purpose is that once it had been written it can run anywhere (WORA). It was developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in May 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems. Java 18 start to be available from March 2022, however Java 8,11 and 17 are still the current long-term support (LTS) version. Java runs on more than 850 million personal computers and on billions of devices worldwide. Ten million developers have created Java applications in all major industries.  (Oracle, 2022). This essay aims to analyse the evolution of Java, and it analyse differences and similarities between Java and C++ in accessibility, versatility, and portability.