When it comes to programming, Java, C, and C++ still rule the roost, according to this month’s Tiobe index of language popularity. But all three have suffered downturns from where they stood in the ...

Advocates of open source Java are moving forward with an effort to let Java programmers access non-Java APIs, including many interfaces used by C programmers. Called Project Panama, the proposal is ...

It's a commonly asked question in a world where every software developer wants to get the most out of every clock cycle their programs consume. It was also a topic at a Java "Birds of a Feather" ...

Java was created over 25 years ago, and it is still one of the most popular programming languages. In this article, I will present an overview of how Java has grown to today's complex system and why ...

Remembering what the programming world was like in 1995 is no easy task. Object-oriented programming, for one, was an accepted but seldom practiced paradigm, with much of what passed as so-called ...

SUN Java provides a mechanism for integration with functions coded in C/C++ or assembler, and basically offers two frameworks: Java Native Interface (JNI), and Java Native Access (JNA). In this paper, ...

C and Java remain the most popular languages in the Tiobe community index, but Python is stalking them and will likely take top spot in the future. According to Tiobe's July 2021 index, the three most ...