Before Java Specification Request (JSR) 223, Scripting for the Java Platform, (and its predecessor, the Bean Scripting Framework, or BSF), many languages were already communicating with Java. Some ...

Three years ago, I wrote an article for JavaWorld called “Java Scripting Languages: Which Is Right for You?” When I collected the interpreters to compare, I tried to choose ones that seemed a good fit ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Microsoft has released the March update for its popular Python extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), its widely used cross-platform code editor. It's also released an update for Java on VS Code ...

Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

New programming language popularity reports are out for April 2018, with one index showing Python on track to upstage perennial No. 1 Java and another showing Perl is "having a hard time." Java has ...