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.

Instead of moving the programming language to an industry-standards group, Sun developed a process by which IBM, Oracle, BEA and other Java companies can update the standard.

Competitive programming is similar to quiz contests. Here a team or individual is given a number of mathematical and logical problems to solve using any programming language allowed by the host.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

On top of the industry challenges, BREW faces stiff competition from Java. Sun has claimed it dominates the market, with 20 million Java-capable handsets in circulation, versus Qualcomm, which has ...

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.