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Java devs abhor Oracle's plan to kill private APIs

Oracle's plan to eliminate access to sun.Misc.unsafe would have drastic consequences, opponents fear
MEAN vs. LAMP for the future of programming

LAMP diehards take note: The flexible simplicity of MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and Node.js is no joke
Red Hat takes the reins of OpenJDK 7

The Linux vendor wants to lead the project while working with the OpenJDK community
Microsoft, Google, Mozilla team to build a faster Web

Web Assembly will provide a standardized way to compile Web applications before they run, in order to speed their performance
Not only Node.js: AWS Lambda adds Java support

More programming languages will be added to the service, which has been used to build apps for multiple purposes
Five things Apple is doing to please developers

Version 2.0 of Swift and upgraded frameworks for Watch apps are on the way

Sick of Flash security holes? HTML5 has its own

Web browsers and HTML5 technologies bring their own weaknesses to the world of Internet apps
Java at 20: The programming juggernaut rolls on

Java has joined C and C++ as a programming language that has stood the test of time
Making games of enterprise software

Gamification is an emerging technique of using gaming techniques to better engage software users