Groovy 5 expands Java and JDK support

The Apache Groovy team has announced Groovy 5, an update to the JVM-based programming language that features broader JDK (Java Development Kit) support, along with hundreds of new and improved extension methods including faster arrays. Developers can download Groovy 5...

Google intros EmbeddingGemma for on-device AI

With the introduction of its EmbeddingGemma, Google is providing a multilingual text embedding model designed to run directly on mobile phones, laptops, and other edge devices for mobile-first generative AI. Unveiled September 4, EmbeddingGemma features a 308 million...

How to spin Python’s challenges into AI gold

Here’s the uncomfortable truth about Python in the enterprise: The language is easy; the ecosystem is not. Most developers can write readable Python by week two. What derails them—and therefore your schedules—is everything around the language: the project scaffolding,...

13 reasons SQL has got to go

For all its popularity and success, SQL is a study in paradox. It can be clunky and verbose, yet for developers, it is often the simplest, most direct way to extract the data we want. It can be lightning quick when a query is written correctly, and slow as molasses...