Languages based in Java often involve verbose syntax and domain-specific languages for testing, parsing and numerical compute processes. These things can be the bane of developers, because the piles ...

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Kotlin and Scala might not seem all that different at first glance. They're both open source, statically typed, general-purpose programming languages that cater to the Java community. In fact, some ...

Scala developers are inching ahead of Java developers when it comes to microservices and cloud-native apps. But according to a new survey by Lightbend Inc., the main backer of the Scala project, both ...

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Programming languages are like screwdrivers for developers. One size does not fit all, so good programmers keep several in their tool belt. Java has matured nicely in the last dozen years. That merely ...

IBM Corp. announced a collaboration today with Lightbend Inc. in a bid to fire up the creation of artificial intelligence applications in large enterprises. Lightbend is the provider of the world’s ...

In a world in which developers are expected to churn out solutions faster than the speed of sound, microservices are taking hold. Development teams working in continuous development and continuous ...

Sometimes trying a new technology works out great. And sometimes it doesn’t. Yammer, which bills itself as the “enterprise social network,” had tapped Scala, a general-purpose, statically typed ...