Microsoft’s Azure Functions serverless computing platform now has beta support for Java programming, a feature developers have demanded since Azure Functions’ 2016 debut.

News What's New for Python, Java in Visual Studio Code By David Ramel 04/12/2024 Microsoft announced March 2024 updates to its Python and Java extensions for Visual Studio Code, the open source-based, ...

As for Python, which is likely to jump over Java and C for top spot, Microsoft has tipped its hat to the language as part of its Azure strategy.

Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language.

Developers with skills in Java and Python programming languages remain among the toughest to find as the UK's skills shortage spreads beyond the capital.

Microsoft's open source subsidiary is partnering with JVM technology vendor Azul Systems to deliver a build of OpenJDK that will run on the Windows Azure cloud platform.

In the Valley, Howard says, most developers build their applications with Ruby on Rails, Python, or "if they're a bit boring," Java, and they look at him funny when he says that Kaggle uses Azure.