Oracle has announced the availability of Java 19 and Oracle JDK 19 for developers, the latest versions of what is arguably the world's most popular programming language. JDK (Java Development Kit) 19 ...

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...

COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It’s had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there’s over ...

Oracle has released the Oracle Java Platform extension for Visual Studio Code, bringing full-featured Java development for Maven and Gradle projects to Microsoft’s popular code editor. Available in ...

Project Babylon would extend the reach of Java to foreign programming models such as machine learning models, GPUs, SQL, and differential programming. Java would be extended to foreign programming ...

In context: Despite being designed in 1959, the COBOL programming language is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers. COBOL offers secure, reliable and transactional ...