Programming Languages

Google Dart aims to supplant ‘fundamentally flawed’ JavaScript

The company says JavaScript needs to be replaced due to its performance shortcomings and slow evolution

More JavaOne 2011 News – 13 September 2011

Windows 8: Microsoft’s greatest comeback ever — or its last hurrah?

Microsoft's fortunes rely heavily on how its next operating system handles the Apple/Android threat

Why we still love open source

Open source is the medium of choice for the world's most creative developers, as shown by InfoWorld's 2011 Best of Open Source Software Awards

Objective-C, C#, D language: Winners in programming popularity

Java is still tops in the Tiobe Programming Community index

Objective-C, C#, D language: Winners in programming popularity

Java remains the longtime top-ranked language in the Tiobe Programming Community index

Research group: HTML5 adoption might hit Apple’s bottom line

Bernstein Research expects Apple's profits to take a hit, while Google and Microsoft benefit from use of HTML5 for Web apps

Book Review: The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition

The OpenJDK as the default Java on Linux

The OpenJDK as the default Java on Linux