Source code for the Java Development Kit (JDK) would be redone in UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format) to facilitate better-defined encoding, under a plan afoot in the OpenJDK Java community.

The switch keyword, used to create stacks of if-then-else conditionals, ... Much Java code is devoted to checking, double-checking, and then triple-checking objects.

The AI-powered code-completion tool, unveiled years ago as an "AI pair programmer," can now rewrite your Java code in Microsoft's open-source-based, cross-platform code editor, thanks to an update of ...