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There is a lot of noise around saying – uninstall or disable Java – as it is vulnerable. Studying the topic, I found almost all versions have gone through similar exploits in the past. Sun, and later, ...

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JavaScript: From web browsers to servers to devices While Suranga’s Medium article declared JavaScript to be immortal and Java to be slowly dying, he would not say that JavaScript is killing Java as a ...

It often happens that programmers and users get confused between Java and JavaScript. Thinking both Java and JavaScript to be the same. If you’ll look from the surface they may appear the same. As ...

Lots of developers are understandably concerned about Oracle’s recent lawsuit against Google, which alleges that the Dalvik virtual machine in the search giant’s Android smartphone OS violates Java ...

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