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The number of new tools designed to make life easier for software developers has exploded in recent years. New programming frameworks help you snap applications together more quickly, while open ...

Java 23, now generally available, includes previews of module import declarations, stream gatherers, structured concurrency, scoped values, and a class-file API. And much more. Java Development Kit ...

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COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It’s had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there’s over ...

Pop quiz: Do you know what annotation metadata is? If you’re like most coders, you don’t—and that has been okay, says Graeme Rocher, creator of Java application frameworks, including Grails. But in a ...