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.

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 ...

IBM's Project CodeNet is an effort to spur the development of AI systems that can tackle programming challenges.

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 ...

To conclude, there is a vast potential for Java specialists in the job market. Programmers also face the challenge of career longevity, where to remain employable, one has to keep learning.

Project Babylon would extend the reach of Java to foreign programming models such as machine learning models, GPUs, SQL, and differential programming.