Development Tools

GitHub dangles deep cloud service discounts for students

GitHub's Student Developer Pack offers thousands of dollars' worth of developer tools and cloud services for free to students

Google Dart crashes into top 20 programming languages

The language's JavaScript compiler helps fuel interest; meanwhile, Java hits an all-time low in Tiobe's popularity index

Couchbase readies next-generation NoSQL storage engine

ARM’s Mbed falls short of true open source

Virtually all essential infrastructure is now really, actually open source. Did ARM not get the memo?

Ericsson releases WebRTC browser and framework as open source

The browser has been resurrected at least in part to make up for Apple's apparent disinterest in the technology

Frege joins Scala, Clojure among Java functional languages

The strictly typed, purely functional language is 'a Haskell for the JVM'

9 proposed Java 9 features devs will love

Popular updates like Project Jigsaw and the new JSON API get the hype, but Java 9 promises a goldmine of new features for developers who know where to look.

Oracle to developers: Let Java be your IoT platform

From small devices to servers, Oracle aims to make Java the top developer tool for IoT

Four reasons to stick with Java, and four reasons to dump it

For all its recent advances and momentum, Java faces serious challenges in the modern enterprise

DukeScript brings Java to HTML5, JavaScript

Framework lets developers leverage Java while building HTML5 and JavaScript applications