June 2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Java, the language that helped define modern enterprise computing. If you had told me in 1995 that devs would still be writing and shipping production code in ...

You might’ve missed it amid the spectacle of Gemini demos and AI ethics panels, but Google quietly rewired the front end of the web at its annual I/O conference—and it’s worth your attention. Not just ...

OpenAI is acquiring Windsurf—formerly known as Codeium—for about $3 billion. The deal, first reported by Bloomberg, marks OpenAI’s largest acquisition to date and places the maker of ChatGPT squarely ...

JavaOne is back, baby! And by that, I mean, back in the Bay Area. It was part of a little trade show diaspora that saw Oracle OpenWorld, among others, decamping to Las Vegas, but it returned this week ...

I read a lot of industry reports based on surveys of one group or another, mostly developers, but it's not often I lay my eyes on one that makes me laugh and shudder at the same time. Here's the funny ...

Software development tools maker JetBrains has announced the availability of a self-hosted version of its Qodana code quality platform. An extension of the cloud version launched last summer, this ...

The OpenJS Foundation today announced the release of Node.js 21, the latest release line of the open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment and library for running web applications ...

Open-source Java platform provider Azul today announced ReadyNow Orchestrator, a new feature of its Azul Platform Prime designed to reduce warmup time for Java applications, enabling improvements to ...

Just when you were getting used to the idea of dragging icons around a screen to build apps, along comes Microsoft PowerApps Copilot saying, "Talk to me. Tell me what you need the app to do…" Really.

IBM has unveiled what appears to be the first generative-AI-based solution for COBOL-to-Java translation. The newly announced Watsonx Code Assistant for Z is designed to speed up the translation of ...

When I first began using the term "prompt engineering" last year, I thought the eye rolling would knock the planet off its axis. I got a similar reaction a dozen years earlier when I proposed writing ...

Java 21 has arrived, and with it the latest implementation of Oracle's Java Development Kit (JDK). Oracle JDK 21 is a long-term support release (LTS) focused on serious performance improvements, ...