If you haven't seen the latest Java developer productivity report from Perforce, you should check it out. Written by Perforce CTO Rod Cope and developer tools exec Jeff Michael, the "2025 Java ...

While much attention regarding AI has been focused on developers using it to code, the impact of AI on software development goes far beyond code creation tools. Armando Solar-Lezama, Distinguished ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Java ranked third in the Tiobe Index for January 2026 at 8.71%, holding steady behind Python and C and just ahead of C++. Tiobe named C# its Programming Language of the Year for 2025 after the largest ...

In patent infringement litigation, ownership isn’t just about who invented the technology. It’s about who holds the legal right to enforce it. That right depends on the language used in assignment ...

Recently, a friend asked me a question that's been floating around every boardroom and business school: "With AI writing code, does programming still matter?" It's a fair question. Generative AI can ...

Creating simple data classes in Java traditionally required substantial boilerplate code. Consider how we would represent Java’s mascots, Duke and Juggy: public class JavaMascot { private final String ...

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor/author in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 30 years experience as an investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in… Artificial intelligence ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Programming is a key transferable skill within the chemical sciences with applications ...

In education–and particularly with my graduate students in higher education–students occasionally focus on the individual points of an assignment rubric instead of stepping back and looking ...