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.

Java would be extended to foreign programming models such as machine learning models, GPUs, SQL, and differential programming, through an OpenJDK proposal called Project Babylon.