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Latest update to the versatile language from JetBrains offers improvements for JVM, JavaScript, and native development.
Java 18 incubates a vector API, previews pattern matching for switch expressions, adopts UTF-8 as the default character set, includes a simple web server, and more.
The next version of standard Java seems poised to include a foreign function and memory API, a vector API, pattern matching for switch expressions, universal generics, and more.
No programmers are happier with their language than Rust programmers. And if you know Java, you’ll find Rust relatively easy to learn.
More than one-third of professional Java developers surveyed by Perforce JRebel were using the eight-year-old version of Java for their main application.
2021 State of JS survey of JavaScript developers also finds significant growth in the use of WebAssembly and Progressive Web Apps.
Pants is a fast, remote-friendly, and ergonomic build tool for multiple languages including Python, Go, Java, and Scala. Let’s take a look.
Proposal would implement region pinning in the default GC so that Java threads would never have to wait for a garbage collection operation to complete.
Java’s finalize method will be deprecated in Java 18 and removed entirely in a future release. Let’s look at the alternatives.
Groovy-integrated queries, sealed types, and switch expressions make their debut in the latest upgrade of the popular JVM language.