James Ward is a Java Champion and Google’s Kotlin product manager. In this interview, he speaks about the state of Java, JVM languages, mutability, and functional programming.

The non-Java JVM languages tend to be more concise (less verbose) than Java. Almiray showed the common JavaBean example written in Java and said we have come to rely on IDEs because of the pain ...

The JVM provides a stable, performant, and secure platform for basically any language and purpose, not just Java. The programming world has responded to this opportunity by producing many ...

Enter Scala: a statically-typed language that compiles to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and is a blend of object-oriented and functional programming paradigms.

Here we examine not only the motivation for Java's platform independence, but how the JVM and bytecode make Java's cross-platform capabilities possible.

Java has been one of the top two programming languages for the past 10 years. How has it stood the test of time? Good design and continuous innovation have a lot to do with it.

Red Hat's latest initiative, Quarkus, aims to usher in a cloud-native Java future -- and shift the core of innovation in enterprise Java. Numerous efforts over the years have attempted to make Java ...

The programming language in most demand, according to the data analysed by Coding Dojo, is Java. Widely used in Android mobile apps, desktop applications, smart TVs and elsewhere, the Java ...

Microsofts JVM is now frozen at Version 1.1.4 as a result of Microsofts legal settlement with Sun over Java, so it would make sense for Microsoft to allow its Internet Explorer users to opt for a ...

A new year brings new competition between coding languages. Find out which programming languages employers will be after in 2024.