With more than 300 app projects built, ArcTouch used Kotlin instead of Java for the first time in a commercial Android project. Find out what we learned. (more…)

Deep dive into Project Loom, fibers and tail calls in the JVM Links: * more on the talk: https://2020.accento.dev/talks/project-loom/ * more on Ron: https://... (more…)

The Amazon Corretto team introduces the open source Heapothesys benchmark, a synthetic workload that simulates fundamental application characteristics that affect garbage collector (GC) latency. The benchmark creates and tests GC load scenarios defined by... (more…)

Video with transcript included: https://bit.ly/2ETnpl1 Juan Fumero presents TornadoVM, a plugin for OpenJDK that allows Java programmers to automatically run... (more…)

“Why can’t I just build an .EXE?“ When Java was first introduced, mainstream programming languages mostly either compiled to standalone executables (e.g. C/C++, COBOL), or else ran in an interpreter (e.g. Perl, Tcl). For many programmers, Java’s need for ... (more…)