Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Primitive types represent the simplest, most direct way to represent data in code. Even the most ...

Primitives have been part of the Java programming language since its initial release in 1996, and yet they remain one of the more controversial language features. John Moore makes a strong case for ...

Q: Is there anything in the Java specification that says a matrix of any primitive type will default to all zeros? For example, I am looking to optimize calculation results so that once I have a value ...