With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to produce a parallel programming language for wider use.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and BEA Systems Chief Executive Bill Coleman trade friendly jabs but agree Java competition is better than the Microsoft alternative.

Project Babylon would extend the reach of Java to foreign programming models such as machine learning models, GPUs, SQL, and differential programming.

Annually, more than 10,000 teams compete in global and regional contests. Problems have varying degrees of difficulty and incorporate five programming languages — C, C++, Java, Kotlin, and Python 3.

2025 ICPC North America Championship Looking ahead to NAC, the “MREEOWWW” team has established a friendly internal competition: the member with the lowest rating is treating the group to dinner. Chen ...

TIOBE Index News (October 2023): Competition Between C# and Java Heats Up Your email has been sent C# is on track to take fourth place in the TIOBE Programming Community Index, but the rankings ...

Why Is Java Important?. Java is one of the most popular programming languages used to create Web applications and platforms. It was designed for flexibility, allowing developers to write code that ...

June 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Java, the language that helped define modern enterprise computing. If you had told me in 1995 that devs would still be writing and shipping production code in ...

Qualcomm brews up Java competition The company unveils the first major upgrade of BREW, its software for next-generation cell phones, adding basic security measures and expands wireless Web access.

When it comes to programming, Java, C, and C++ still rule the roost, according to this month’s Tiobe index of language popularity. But all three have suffered downturns from where they stood in ...