Clojure's immutable datatypes, lockless concurrency, and simple abstractions make parallel programming for multicore hardware simpler and more robust than in Java. Joshua Fox takes you on a tour ...

This ongoing challenge will run until the end of January and aims to find Java code that processes one billion rows in the fastest time.

The One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) is a Java programming challenge announced early this year by Gunnar Morling that involves processing a text file with 1 billion rows, calculating the min, mean and ...

The new programming language on the block is C# (pronounced C sharp) from Microsoft. C# was developed partially in response to Java's popularity. It also was created because ...