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By John K. Waters
Python looks set to clinch the Language of the Year award for 2024, maintaining its lead in the December TIOBE Programming Community Index, while Fortran’s steady ascent highlighted a quiet month in the rankings.
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By John K. Waters
The Eclipse Foundation releases its 2024 IoT & Embedded Developer Survey, shedding light on key trends and challenges shaping the Internet of Things (IoT) and embedded systems industry.
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By John K. Waters
Payara announces the alpha release of Payara Platform Community 7 Alpha 2, offering developers a first look at Jakarta EE 11 (currently under development).
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By John K. Waters
The Open Mainframe Project has announces the Long Term Support (LTS) V3 release of Zowe, an open-source framework for mainframes, designed to enhance durability, stability, and security for mission-critical applications. The latest version strengthens Zowe’s integration with popular programming languages and tools, particularly through support for Java, positioning the framework as a key component in modernizing mainframe environments.
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By John K. Waters
Google introduces PipelineDP4j, a differential privacy toolkit built for Java Virtual Machine (JVM) environments, with the goal of making privacy-preserving data analysis more accessible for developers.
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By John K. Waters
The Java language and platform continues to be the backbone of many enterprise applications, and yet businesses are only scratching the surface of its cost-saving potential. That's the conclusion of a survey by BellSoft conducted during the annual Devoxx Belgium conference of more than 300 attendees.
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By John K. Waters
Oracle announced the general availability of JDK 23 this week, a feature release with enhanced capabilities focused on cloud-native applications, enterprise performance, and the growing demands of AI.
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By John K. Waters
Java Development Kit (JDK) 23 has reached the release candidate stage, marking its next step toward general availability on September 17, 2024. The upcoming non-LTS (Long Term Support) release, with only six months of official support from Oracle, finalizes a dozen new features designed to enhance Java’s functionality.
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By John K. Waters
Open-source Java platform provider Azul just announces the winners of its first-ever Azul Java Hero Awards, which recognizes exceptional achievements in Java deployments worldwide.
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By John K. Waters
Java solutions vendor Azul releases findings from its first annual Oracle Alternatives Survey, which asserts that 86% of enterprises are migrating from Oracle Java.
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By John K. Waters
The BMW Group officially joins the Eclipse Foundation’s Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Working Group as a strategic member, enhancing global collaboration on open-source software for modern vehicles. The SDV Working Group aims to develop open-source technologies for automotive applications.
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After seven years in development, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft’s similar Visual Studio Code editor.
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By John K. Waters
The TIOBE Index update for June 2024 revealed significant shifts in the programming landscape, with C++ surpassing C for the first time in history. But Java held its own in fourth place.
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By John K. Waters
The Eclipse Foundation, in collaboration with the Adoptium Working Group, unveils the latest release of Eclipse Temurin, the working group's OpenJDK distribution.
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By John K. Waters
JetBrains officially launches "Aqua," the first IDE specifically designed for test automation. It's a revolutionary tool aimed at streamlining the testing process for software development teams.
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By John K. Waters
Java 22 arrived with a fresh batch of performance, stability, and security features, including support for building AI applications.
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Microsoft announces updates of its Java tooling in its Visual Studio Code extension and the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ, showcasing a host of new features.
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By John K. Waters
Red Hat announces the GA of Red Hat Developer Hub, an enterprise-grade internal developer platform (IDP) based on Backstage.
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By John K. Waters
TIOBE Software names C# programming language of the year award.
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By John K. Waters
The OpenJS Foundation announces Node.js 21, the latest release line of the open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment and library for running web applications outside the client's browser.
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By John K. Waters
The latest implementation of Oracle's Java Development Kit (JDK) has arrived. Oracle JDK 21 is a long-term support release (LTS) focused on serious performance improvements, stability enhancements, and security upgrades.
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Dev toolmaker JetBrains has created a new IDE called RustRover designed specifically for the Rust system programming language.
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By John K. Waters
Oracle announces new Java-based deployment tech, GraalOS, that uses the Oracle GraalVM Native Image to run apps as native machine executables to take advantage of the latest features of Arm and Intel processors on Oracle OCI.
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By John K. Waters
VMware unveils a new the Spring AI project, which aims to streamline the development of Java apps that incorporate AI functionality.
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By John K. Waters
Open-source Java platform provider Azul announces ReadyNow Orchestrator, a new feature of its Platform Prime designed to reduce warmup time for Java applications.