Strong typing and the var keyword Java’s var keyword reduces the verbosity and ceremony surrounding the declaration of local variables, but it does not sidestep any rules about the platform’s strong ...

Runtime errors occur when something goes wrong in the normal execution of a program. When severe enough, these errors abruptly terminate an application. To help programmers both anticipate and recover ...

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 ...

With Java 9, support for parallel execution on HSA-compatible processors will be native, Rogers said in an interview following the presentation.