This ongoing challenge will run until the end of January and aims to find Java code that processes one billion rows in the fastest time.

Clojure's immutable datatypes, lockless concurrency, and simple abstractions make parallel programming for multicore hardware simpler and more robust than in Java. Joshua Fox takes you on a tour ...

The One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) is a Java programming challenge announced early this year by Gunnar Morling that involves processing a text file with 1 billion rows, calculating the min, mean and ...

The new programming language on the block is C# (pronounced C sharp) from Microsoft. C# was developed partially in response to Java's popularity. It also was created because ...

To conclude, there is a vast potential for Java specialists in the job market. Programmers also face the challenge of career longevity, where to remain employable, one has to keep learning.

Project Babylon would extend the reach of Java to foreign programming models such as machine learning models, GPUs, SQL, and differential programming.