With any luck this should become a series of postings on new and emerging languages and I am going to begin on familiar territory with, somewhat counter intuitively, one of the most widely adopted ...

I recently discovered an interesting game-programming contest with entertaining prizes, which I encourage Java Fun and Games readers to enter. Java Unlimited is a free service that promotes Java games ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

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 ...