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Oracle’s massive bet on OpenAI might be financially risky, but its investments in AI farms could accelerate Java’s evolution for AI. While Python dominates training, inference is w…

I sometimes wonder whether the political attitudes of some immigrants and their descendants are shaped by negative experiences or family histories from their countries of origin. T…

Java 16+ stream.map(...).toList() https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8180352

Clojure has never been a popular language, nor has it aimed to be mainstream. That is the Lisp curse. It has never positioned itself as a "better Java". It shines in applications w…

Kotlin hasn’t made much of an impact in server-side development on the JVM. I’m not sure where this perception comes from, but in my experience, it’s virtually nonexistent in the l…

Maven is excellent! Once you understand it, you can work with almost any Maven project without needing to learn the specifics. I’d take Maven or Cargo any day over anything in the …

This has always been the case. The Java and C# ecosystems prioritise stability and scale. They wait for ideas to prove themselves in other languages like Erlang, Python, Go, Scala,…

Java was doing "cloud-native, stripped down (jlink) image, self-contained runtime with batteries included" long before Bun existed. There's also GraalVM for one executable binary i…

In simulations or in game dev, the practice is to use an SoA data layout to avoid aliasing entirely. Job systems or actors are used for handling multithreading. In machine learning…

The real barrier is the C++ ecosystem. It represents the cost of losing decades of optimized, highly integrated, high-performance libraries. C++ maps almost perfectly to the hardwa…

Gemini and other agents are now failing when they search for something on the web. ChatGPT can't even be accessed.

Seems like Windows is trying to address the Electron problem by adopting React Native for their WinAppSDK. RN is not just a cross-platform solution, but a framework that allows Win…

What’s your take on older languages gaining new life in production because of ecosystem improvements? I’m thinking of Python, which for most of its 34 year history wasn’t always a …

Mojo has a different scope than Julia and Python, it targets inference workloads. Polars is a dataframe library. Yes, it features vectorized operations, but it is focused on column…

Ecosystems matter, but runtimes do as well. Take Java, for instance. It didn’t have to wrap C/C++ libraries, yet it became synonymous with anything data-intensive. From Apache Hado…

I don't think Julia was designed for pure overhead projects in memory-constrained environments, or for squeezing out that last 2% of hardware performance to cut costs, like C++, Ru…