In the past weeks there has been a heated debate around the imminent release of Java 9 and its most famous feature: the Java platform modu... (more…)

Java vs Javascript: Battle of Concurrency Almost a decade back, it was shocking when Walmart announced it’s ditching their old Java based systems and re-writing everything in Javascript, as they need to handle more than 20,000 requests per second on thei... (more…)

uWebSockets - Highly scalable WebSocket server & client library...

“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…)

During the second week of November was Devoxx Belgium, Europe’s biggest Java conference, and as every year the community’s who’s-who showed up. One of them was Brian Goetz, Java Language …