I recently recently compared Java’s REPL scripting environment to Python’s.. Many detractors felt that such an apples-to-apples comparison was unfair. The general consensus from the Python community ...

Python has surpassed Java as the top language used to introduce U.S. students to programming and computer science, according to a recent survey posted by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Java is also evolving on the platform side, in the form of the GraalVM polyglot virtual machine, which improves performance for many JVM-based languages and offers native compilation. “GraalVM ...