Java has always allows us to say "this class cannot be extended" by marking the class final. The existence of final in the language acknowledges a basic fact about classes: sometimes they are designed ...

A proposal before the OpenJDK development team would add hidden classes to Java, a capability intended to improve the efficiency of language implementations built on the JVM. Hidden classes are ...

Google today announced that it is making Kotlin, a statically typed programming language for the Java Virtual Machine, a first-class language for writing Android apps. Kotlin’s primary sponsor is ...