One of the more frequently overlooked aspects of Blu-ray is its underlying use of the Sun Microsystems Java programming language to bring a high level of interactivity to the optical disc format.

The emphasis here is on “high-level programming language,” as the researchers behind the language note that existing quantum languages for programmers still work at a very low abstraction ...

We should point out that Java is considered a high-level programming language because both humans and computers can read it.

Furthermore, these languages do not participate in memory management and feature abstraction. The main examples of high-level programming languages are C#, Python, Java, Ruby, and more.

As it turns out, much the same can be said for Java. In fact, system-level software written in Java can offer an even better cost-benefit ratio, making Java a viable language for both current and ...

Java may still be getting bad press when it comes to (mostly consumer) security, but it continues to be the world's most popular software development language.

Java has stood the test of time in its over 25 years as the world's best programming language. Here's why developers still choose to code in it.