On May 23, 1995, a seemingly modest programming language called Java was released by Sun Microsystems. At the time, it introduced the catchy promise of "write once, run anywhere" - a proposition ...

News. Java Holds Steady as Python Claims Programming Language of the Year. By John K. Waters; January 7, 2025; Despite Python's meteoric rise to claim Tiobe's Programming Language of the Year for 2024 ...

A regular column about programming. Because if/when the machines take over, we should at least speak their language. To review: JavaScript is what makes static web pages “dynamic.” Without it ...

This report provides a summary of how the InfoQ Java editorial team and several Java Champions currently see the adoption of technology and emerging trends within the Java and JVM space in 2023.

Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor. The new ...

This week's Java roundup for August 7th, 2023, features news from JDK 22, JDK 21, GraalVM Native Build Tools 0.9.24, Spring Cloud 2023.0.0-M1, Spring Modulith 1.0-RC1, Payara Cloud, Quarkus 3.2.4, Mic ...

JavaScript and Java scored high as both most liked and most disliked programming languages in JetBrains’ State of the Developer Ecosystem survey. Perl was far and away the most disliked language.

In the U.S., Java was still a popular nickname for coffee in the late 1990s when the computer programming language was developed, said Georges Saab, the vice president of development for Java at ...

For the first time in more than 20 years, the Python programming language has overtaken Java, JavaScript, and C as the most popular language.