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Oracle's ambitious plans focus on density, scaling, and stronger language capabilities
The venerable language has lowest rating ever but still ranks second; Google's Go language is a rising star
Oracle will announce a new Java EE road map at JavaOne, but until then, third parties are trying to fill the gaps
Even before the release of Swift 3, Apple is talking up Swift 4 features like ABI stability, string processing, concurrency, and new scripting capabilities
Google's onetime Java-to-JavaScript wonder tool may see new life, thanks to a looming update
Version 1.09 gains speed, but loses the GitRepositoryAsync API; the beta of version 1.10 upgrades the Atom Package Manager
Discover the java.util.Collections class's support for immutable empty collections and iterators
A recent survey found that while developers are into newer languages like Swift, Rust, and Scala, businesses prefer the stalwarts -- and Python can bridge the gap between the two
Upgrade boosts performance and debugging, backs ECMAScript 6 IntelliSense and Node 6
Node's developers look to tighten security, better accommodate ECMAScript, and move to HTTP/2