A team of researchers at the University of Illinois' Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) has developed a parallel implementation of Java.

Among other things, cloud applications will also benefit from parallel programming, so Scala could be used to optimize cloud applications as well. Scala is an open source language.

One size does not fit all, and it never will. Parallel programming looks to level the playing field by leveraging multicore hardware.

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java ...

In fact, software written in SQL has been running in parallel for more than 20 years. But with “Big Data” now becoming a reality, more programmers are interested in building programs on the parallel ...

Oracle has announced the availability of Java 19 and Oracle JDK 19 for developers, the latest versions of what is arguably the world's most popular programming language. JDK (Java Development Kit ...

Lambda expressions are the biggest features integrated into Java 8. This functional programming paradigm was, until now, missing from Java. Its inclusion now will only help Java grow in the right ...

Java has stood the test of time in its over 25 years as the world's best programming language. Here's why developers still choose to code in it.

Twenty-year-old Java, despite being long in the tooth, is still the most popular programming language for developing enterprise applications. The TIOBE index, which is one measure of the popularity of ...