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Every so often, someone creates or changes a programming language. In the process, these language creators make a number of design choices. They may wonder whether to check certain conditions at ...

Java, which first blinked into existence in 1995, is 30 years old this week and continues to be a stalwart in modern programming. Brian Fox, Co-founder and CTO of Sonatype, puts it perfectly. Java, he ...

Naming conventions are important if you're a Java developer. Naming conventions not only make your Java code easier to read, they make your code self-documenting as well. Fellow developers can tell in ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. WebAssembly was created to perform the highly complex and overwhelmingly sophisticated ...

Abstract: Programs that run on a Java virtual machine (JVM)-like Eclipse OpenJ9-are initially interpreted. To improve performance, a Just-in- Time (JIT) compiler may be employed at run time to ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

Meta has unveiled the Meta Large Language Model (LLM) Compiler, a suite of robust, open-source models designed to optimize code and revolutionize compiler design. This innovation has the potential to ...

Some Mac users may need to install Java on their Apple Silicon equipped Mac – whether it’s an M1, M2, M3, or other M-series ARM chip – allowing them to run Java-based applications and software on ...