With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to produce a parallel programming language for wider use.

October’s TIOBE index had C at No. 1 and Java at No. 2, and historically those two languages have simply traded spaces while the rest of the competition battled it out for the privilege to fall ...

Java showed a dramatic decline of -3.92% on TIOBE’s system. While the programming language still sits at number four, Jansen notes that C# has never been this close to catching up to Java.

2025 ICPC North America Championship Looking ahead to NAC, the “MREEOWWW” team has established a friendly internal competition: the member with the lowest rating is treating the group to dinner. Chen ...

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

Java maintained the top spot it has held since April 2015, with a rating of 16.676 percent, while C stays in second with a rating of 8.445 percent, followed by C++ in third place at 5.429.

Annually, more than 10,000 teams compete in global and regional contests. Problems have varying degrees of difficulty and incorporate five programming languages — C, C++, Java, Kotlin, and Python 3.

Image: Shutterstock Oracle has announced the availability of Java 19 and Oracle JDK 19 for developers, the latest versions of what is arguably the world's most popular programming language. JDK ...