If you were designing a general purpose programming language today, what major features and constraints do you think are necessary? Let's constrain (heh) ourselves to languages that might compete with ...

Java is an excellent general-purpose programming language. So, what is wrong with just using Java for everything? Why use any other language? Java is far from slow. It is orders-of-magnitude faster ...

James Gosling learned a lesson in a recent blog post on the subject of scripting vs. strongly typed general purpose languages, and that is that readers of technology news are evil. Yes, I mean you.

I have recently been playing with Fan, a programming language that reminds me a lot of Groovy, but has additional capabilities, such as actors. Its binaries run either on the JVM or .NET. Below is my ...

While recent events have focused on Java and how it will fare as computing continues to evolve to support modern platforms and technologies, a new language is targeted directly at the cloud-native ...

Java is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented computer programming language that is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended ...

In 2016, and let’s face it – having coding skills makes a difference, no matter what job you have. It’s not just for coders or programmers anymore, it’s more important than ever that everyone have at ...

Want to learn a new coding language but don't know where to start? Here are 10 options for those looking to learn to program. When it comes to breaking into a career as a developer or adding a new ...

Late last year RedMonk analyst Steven O’Grady wrote a post titled “A Return to the General Purpose Database.” The idea was that the market, seeking something beyond “vanilla” relational databases, had ...

Programming languages are important because they are the tools that developers use to create software, applications, and websites. Different programming languages have their own syntax, structure, and ...