Virtual threads, revealed in Java's Project Loom and generally available with the Java 21 LTS, promise unparalleled scalability, simplified asynchronous coding and more efficient resource utilization.

In addition, Java SE 6 includes built-in support for script engines, and JSR 223 defines a standard interface to interact with dynamic languages running on the Java platform. In order to take ...

Java has always been criticized for being too verbose. While that criticism is largely unfounded, language architects and community enthusiasts have always strived to make the language simpler and ...