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Programming Trends and Technologies Landscape in Jelastic Cloud: 2016 Quarters 2-3

| October 20, 2016 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The third quarter of 2016 has already passed, thus it’s a high time to make a summary and renew our software stacks & engines usage statistics. The report below is focused on analyzing popularity of programming languages and technologies among Jelastic Cloud developers during the last half of year: programming languages distribution engines popularity application…

Functional programming in Java? (Guest post)

| April 15, 2013 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This article was originally posted by Johan Noren at MacGyver Development. After more toying with Scala on my spare time while hacking Java in office hours I miss out on using all these functional idioms in my Java programs. So with Java 8 coming closer I got interested in how the JDK team is planning…

Why Is Java Preferred to Other Languages as a Building Block? (Guest Post)

| April 1, 2013 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , , , ,

This article was originally posted by Steve Manik at Techopedia. Takeaway: Despite a few flaws, no other language matches up to Java in terms of flexibility and seamless integration with other frameworks and technologies. Software engineers are not just application programmers; they are supposed to build and structure products for clients that meet their expectations,…

On Functional Programming in Java – It's Coming… (Guest Post)

| March 27, 2013 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , , ,

This article was originally posted by Ted Neward at his blog. Elliott Rusty Harold is blogging that functional programming in Java is dangerous. He’s wrong, and he’s way late to the party on this one–it’s coming to Java whether he likes it or not. Go read his post first, while I try to sum up…

Java Doesn’t Need A Rewrite It Needs Hardening (Guest Post)

| March 12, 2013 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , ,

This article was originally posted by Martyr2 at the Coders Lexicon. So we have all seen the almost daily reports of zero-day bugs creeping into Java’s platform recently. Many out there have said things like “Oracle has dropped the ball” and others have made calls for a massive rewrite of the way Java works. I…

Why Java does not support Operator overloading (Guest post)

| March 6, 2013 | Uncategorized | , , , , , ,

This article was originally posted by Javin Paul at Javarevisited. Unlike C++ java doesn’t provide freedom to programmer to overload the standard arithmetic operators e.g. +, -, * and /, Java has left lot of feature supported in C++ e.g. Java doesn’t support multiple inheritance, no pointers in Java and no pass by reference in…

A passionate defence of Java's virtues (Guest post)

| February 5, 2013 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , ,

This article was originally posted by John G. Spragge at Coding Java and XML with JAX-B. Well, that was quite a pile on, wasn’t it? Just along one thread about the Java™ programming language, we get a number of solid reporters and a couple of “gurus”. The reporters explain the facts about the current vulnerability…

Poll: Your Additional Programming Languages

| January 25, 2013 | Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , , ,

Computer code is very similar to spoken language. So it’s not a surprise that just like with spoken languages there exist programming polyglots. It’s known that the most of the audience of our blog mark out Java as their main language. Let’s see now what languages are also “fluently” used. What additional programming languages do…

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