Clojure's immutable datatypes, lockless concurrency, and simple abstractions make parallel programming for multicore hardware simpler and more robust than in Java. Joshua Fox takes you on a tour ...

This ongoing challenge will run until the end of January and aims to find Java code that processes one billion rows in the fastest time.

The One Billion Row Challenge (1BRC) is a Java programming challenge announced early this year by Gunnar Morling that involves processing a text file with 1 billion rows, calculating the min, mean and ...

IBM's Project CodeNet is an effort to spur the development of AI systems that can tackle programming challenges.