The Java language includes various behaviors that may puzzle newcomers to the language. This post examines three such behaviors involving arrays, bytes and shorts, and private fields and methods.

Java’s thirtieth birthday arrives amid the clamour surrounding generative AI, a technology already capable of drafting ...

From Java 9 onward, the language has evolved steadily. The module system (Java 9), local variable type inference with var (Java 10), pattern matching (Java 16), and improvements in memory ...

With Java running critical applications the world over, the nearly 25-year-old programming language must balance its community’s affection for its syntax with new trends.

Python, Java, C#, Go, Delphi/Object Pascal, Swift, Ruby, Rust and Ada are some memory-safe programming languages, according to an April 2023 NSA report. New metrics for measuring software security ...

In its 20 years, Java is used for building everything from mobile phone apps to video games to enterprise IT applications. The language is designed to run across multiple software platforms.

That's where JEP 454 comes in. First previewed in Java 19 and delivered in Java 22, it introduces the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API, which is designed to address those limitations and usher in a ...

Java's roots trace back to 1991, when Sun engineers James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton set out to create a language for interactive television and embedded devices. This was called ...