The company is expected to announce plans to speed up its version of Java for servers by letting the software run directly on processors. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

G1 garbage collector improvement would also reduce the overhead of the JDK’s C2 optimizing compiler, benefiting cloud-based Java deployments. A change to Java’s G1 garbage collector would lower the ...

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code dev teams for Java and Python announced Gradle enhancements for the former and improved Python discovery for the latter. The company updates its associated extensions on ...

A year ago Java was the most popular programming language among developers, but it's now jostling for second place with Python. Software firm Tiobe's December 2020 programming language rankings place ...