Scala is not among the most popular programming languages but soon this could change. With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to ...

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An article by that title over at GigaOM has gotten a lot of attention on the interwebs over the past couple weeks, so I hereby present you with a link to said article, plus an excerpt to keep you warm ...

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming ...

One size does not fit all, and it never will. Parallel programming looks to level the playing field by leveraging multicore hardware. It was easy to program applications in the days when one chip, one ...

Industry consortium HSA Foundation intends to bring native support for parallel acceleration in Java virtual machines, which would make it easier to tap into multiple processors like graphics ...

One interpretation of this graph shows Java (blue) being overtaken by C (black) over the course of the decade. What this interpretation belies is the fact that Java and the C family (C, C++, and C#) ...

Java has gracefully evolved over the past decade or so. However, the biggest update to Java ecosystem is the Java 8 update. The changes ensure that Java stays at the top priority for developers to ...