The new language Rhombus, based on Racket, allows powerful, flexible, and clean macro programming with an easy-to-read syntax ...

Minecraft's Java Edition has long been the go-to for PC players, owing to how moddable it is in comparison to its Bedrock counterpart. However, getting a clean multiplayer experience has long ...

Minecraft Java Edition is finally getting a native Friends List and peer-to-peer multiplayer, letting players join each other’s worlds without setting up a server, Realms, or relying on third-party ...

Features now not included in Java releases will be added, while Java theme ambitions plan for easier use for immutable data and preserving the feel of Java. Oracle’s latest Java language ambitions are ...

Night Objects Eli Raphael. Grand Central, $29 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5387-7587-5 A woman reflects on the suspicious death of her boarding school classmate in Raphael’s riveting debut. In chapters titled ...

Babies as young as two months old are able to categorize distinct objects in their brains—much earlier than previously thought—according to new research from neuroscientists at Trinity College Dublin.

Abstract: Object flattening is a non-trivial optimization that inlines the fields of an object inside its containers. Owing to its direct applicability for immutable objects, Java would soon allow ...