I once attended a Java user group meeting where James Gosling (Java’s inventor) was the featured speaker. During the memorable Q&A session, someone asked him: “If you could do Java over again, what ...

Frankly, I think most of what Java 8 is planning to do is let the fanboys dump every feature they can think of into the language. I’m not against those features per se, and the JVM itself should ...

Java has always been criticized for being too verbose. While that criticism is largely unfounded, language architects and community enthusiasts have always strived to make the language simpler and ...