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Fleet will coexist with JetBrains’ IntelliJ line and serve as a lightweight code editor with a different take on IDE organization.
Memory manager for Kotlin/Native lifts restrictions on object sharing between threads and offers leak-free, concurrent programming primitives.
OpenJDK draft proposal would make concurrent programming far easier, while making more efficient use of hardware resources.
Android and iOS code sharing technology, namespace prototype, code coverage plug-in, and documentation generation tool also in the works.
Universal generics would allow Java type variables to range over primitive and reference types, making it easier to extend or reuse code across different types.
Newfound commitment to the Java platform includes releases of Microsoft Build for OpenJDK in May and Language Support for Java on Visual Studio Code in October.
Take advantage of Docker to ease Java development. Learn how to update a running Java codebase (without restarting the container) and to debug into a remotely running containerized Java app.
Qodana code quality monitoring platform integrates with the IntelliJ IDE and supports Java and Kotlin, with support for additional JVM and non-JVM languages in the works.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 allows OpenStack and OpenShift users to run VM-based and container-based workloads side by side with better performance and security.
Python rises above C and Java to take the top position in the index of programming language popularity for the first time.