For many coding students, HTML, CSS, Python, Java, JavaScript, C and Ruby are among the easiest programming languages to learn.

The programmers, who had an average experience of eight years, created 24 versions in Java, 11 in C++, and five in C. The results, published in Communications of the ACM, were revealing.

Now, Java programmers can specify the same immutable rules for their own objects by calling them “ Records.” This simplifies multi-threaded safety, caching, and synchronization.

The C programming language is the polar opposite to Java in these two respects. First, C code is compiled to native machine code and doesn’t require the use of a virtual machine for interpretation.

Amazon Web Services has long offered an SDK to make it easier to access its web services from Java. Now it has another lure for Java programmers: James Gosling, the father of Java.

C++ and Java. For anyone writing their own or adopting Google’s parser written in C++ (a super fast compiled language), Google has released the source code for its robots.txt parser validation ...