Now that Google has endorsed Kotlin for Android development, Java-based mobile developers could become dinosaurs... (more…)

In 64-bit Hotspot, Java objects have an object header of 128 bits: a 64 bit multi-purpose header (‘mark’ or ‘lock’) word and a 64-bit class pointer. With typical average object sizes of 5-6 words, this is quite significant: 2 of those words are al... (more…)

One of the most hotly debated topics in the world of the Go programming language, is the lack of generics. Generics are considered a key feature in other statically typed programming languages like Java or C#. However, the makers of Go resisted the demand... (more…)

stackparam - JVM agent to add method parameters to Java stack traces... (more…)

Progressbar is a console-based progress bar for Java with minimal runtime overhead. (more…)