Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The Java landscape—including key players and users—is experiencing a significant shift.

Java’s sun.misc.Unsafe class has been in use since 2002. It provides essential low-level methods that framework developers use to deliver otherwise unobtainable features and performance. Unfortunately ...

Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

Python might be the default for most AI and machine learning development, but what about other popular languages? Here’s what ...