With a EUR 2.3 million grant from the European Research Council (ERC), the Scala team will double their efforts to produce a parallel programming language for wider use.

Instead of moving the programming language to an industry-standards group, Sun developed a process by which IBM, Oracle, BEA and other Java companies can update the standard.

2025 ICPC North America Championship Looking ahead to NAC, the “MREEOWWW” team has established a friendly internal competition: the member with the lowest rating is treating the group to dinner. Chen ...

Java showed a dramatic decline of -3.92% on TIOBE’s system. While the programming language still sits at number four, Jansen notes that C# has never been this close to catching up to Java.

Java maintained the top spot it has held since April 2015, with a rating of 16.676 percent, while C stays in second with a rating of 8.445 percent, followed by C++ in third place at 5.429.

Annually, more than 10,000 teams compete in global and regional contests. Problems have varying degrees of difficulty and incorporate five programming languages — C, C++, Java, Kotlin, and Python 3.