JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new two-year LTS cadence (after 21), and it lands with meaningful language cleanup, startup/perf work, forward-looking security, and a steady drumbeat ...

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...

Project Babylon would extend the reach of Java to foreign programming models such as machine learning models, GPUs, SQL, and differential programming. Java would be extended to foreign programming ...

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed “pragmatic” ...