A year ago Java was the most popular programming language among developers, but it's now jostling for second place with Python. Software firm Tiobe's December 2020 programming language rankings place ...

G1 garbage collector improvement would also reduce the overhead of the JDK’s C2 optimizing compiler, benefiting cloud-based Java deployments. A change to Java’s G1 garbage collector would lower the ...

For the first time in the history of TIOBE's index, Java has slipped out of the top two, leaving Python to occupy the spot behind reigning champion, C.

A new project initiated by IBM to create a toolkit for language runtimes is about to go open source, and it could be used to speed up the performance of existing runtimes for many languages. The OMR ...