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When many Java developers hear the word WebAssembly, the first thing they think is “browser technology”. The second thing: “it’s the JVM all over again”. After all, for a Java developer, in-browser apps are prehistory.
With the recent announcement of a commercial game shipping using Emscripten and asm.js , I thought it’d be a good time to explain how asm.js is executed in Firefox and some of the load-time optimizations we’ve made since the initial landing of OdinMonkey in March. (OdinMonkey is an optimization module inside Mozilla’s…
R is a programming language for statistical computing known for its rich ecosystem of 3rd party libraries called “packages”. The R…
The PyPy team is proud to release both PyPy2.7 v5.8 (an interpreter supporting Python 2.7 syntax), and a beta-quality PyPy3.5 v5.8 (an inte...
Technical articles and release notes about Symbolica, symbolic computation, numerical methods, and high-performance computer algebra.
At Modular, open source is ingrained in our DNA. We firmly believe for Mojo to reach its full potential, it must be open source. We have been progressively open-sourcing more of Mojo and parts of the MAX platform, and today we’re thrilled to announce the release of the core modules from the Mojo standard library under…
Code coverage for integration tests, available in Go 1.20.
A couple of years ago, we initiated the idea of creating a Kotlin Multiplatform IDE to help facilitate the development of KMP applications. We embarked on this venture, building on the Fleet platform,
We’re excited to announce that the AWS SDK for Rust is now generally available and supported for production use. The AWS SDK for Rust provides an idiomatic, type-safe API, along with the benefits of the Rust language such as performance, reliability, and productivity. The SDK supports modern Rust language features…
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
How learning the Clojure programming language three years ago changed my life
Find out more about HashLink, the newest Haxe target, a virtual machine used to develop system/server/desktop applications.
Today's main topic is the "freezing" of the JEP list in JDK 21. In addition to that, however, we will also talk about Nulls in Valhalla. And finally, the obligatory Release Radar.
Is it Python 2 or 3 that gets the job done? We crunched the data to find out.
It’s important for web experiences to work great on mobile devices. The latest release of the Dart includes a development version of Dar...
A few month back, Apple quietly slipped a very nice Objective-C to Javascript bridge into WebKit. Since the first commit...
I’ve been saying the upcoming 0.11.0 release of Zig would have async/await/suspend/resume for 9 months now. You can probably find 10 different places where I promised in writing or in front of a camera that this next release would have this feature.
A user friendly game engine written in Rust
We're pleased to announce the 1.7 release of PyPy. As became a habit, this release brings a lot of bugfixes and performance improvements ove...
Java is one of the most widely taught programming languages in the world. Tens of thousands of educators find that the imperative core of the language combined with a straightforward standard library is a foundation that students can comfortably learn on. Choosing Java gives educators many degrees of freedom: they can…
For Go 1.15, we propose three minor language cleanup changes.
