In the technical keynote address for JavaOne 2013, Mark Reinhold, chief architect for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, described lambda expressions as the single largest upgrade to the Java ...

Reactivity is a powerful idiom for describing and combining functionality like web requests and data access. In general, we use producers and subscribers to describe asynchronous event sources and ...

“The functional style of programming is very charming,” insists Venkat Subramaniam. “The code begins to read like the problem statement. We can relate to what the code is doing and we can quickly ...

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Microsoft has released the March update for its popular Python extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), its widely used cross-platform code editor. It’s also released an update for Java on VS Code ...

Simon Ritter, Deputy CTO, Azul Systems Inc. Java is a mature development platform, now pushing past 20 years in age. As such, it’s ideally suited to developing embedded applications due to its ...

First, let's cover the technical issues. It's verbose, combines the worst of both worlds between static and dynamic typing by having a hobbled but extremely clunky type system, and mandates running on ...