Anyone who has followed software development tools during the last decade knows that the term “Java” refers to a pair of technologies: the Java programming language and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

Wikipedia: A Java virtual machine is a program which executes certain other programs, namely those containing Java bytecode instructions….. JVM's are most often implemented to run on an existing ...

Explore the correct terminology and common programming uses for round parentheses, square brackets, and curly braces. Learn how PascalCase works, how it differs from camel, snake, and kebab case, and ...

Software development toolmaker JetBrains has announced the general availability of Kotlin 1.0, its open source programming language for both JVM and Android. The language has been in development for ...

I should have blogged this sooner, but things have been a little…crazy…lately. The JVM Languages Summit is coming up for its second year. The event last year was ...

Kotlin continues to grow in popularity among Java developers, a new report from Snyk revealed. In its annual JVM ecosystem report it found that Kotlin is now the second most popular JVM language. Java ...

Software development toolmaker JetBrains has announced a new milestone release of Kotlin, its open source, JVM-targeted programming language. Milestone Release 13 (M13) comes with a new compiler ...

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ZeroTurnaround, creators of the JRebel plug-in for the Java Virtual Machine, has brought out a 50-page report that explores Java 8 and some of the JVM languages. The Adventurous Developer’s Guide to ...

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At the time we broke ground on HHVM in early 2010, there was one and only one architectural pattern for running dynamic languages fast that had led to unequivocal success: designing a JIT from the ...

Project lead Guillaume Laforge explains what's in store for Groovy, and Grails lead Graeme Roche outlines that related framework's future Groovy is a popular, open source, dynamic language ...