Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin.

While Kotlin provides some features that are entirely new — for instance, a type system designed to prevent bugs such as the dreaded null pointer references — it was paramount that it operates ...

Oracle has released new versions of Java every six months as of Java 10, which it released in March 2018. The aim is to bring customers more innovation faster while also providing predictability ...