The challenge For a given string s find the character c (or C) with longest consecutive repetition and return: where l (or L) is the length of the repetition. If there are two or more characters with the same l return the first in order of appearance. For... (more…)

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The new JEP 434 has just seen daylight and describes the second preview of the ”Foreign Function & Memory API” (or FFM for short) which is going to be incorporated in the upcoming Java 20 release! In this article, we will take a closer look at some of... (more…)