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Azul supplies a number of Java runtimes, including Zing and Zulu (there is an embedded version of the latter). Azul’s latest offering is an updated version of Zing, that features Falcon, a new JIT ...

The team behind scripting language PHP has announced PHP version 8.0, a major release that may require developers to review code for any breaking changes. This ...

Ruby Box is an experimental feature that separates and isolates definitions such as classes, and can be enabled by specifying the environment variable 'RUBY_BOX=1.' Definitions loaded in a box are ...

In an effort to keep Firefox competitive with commercial browsers and handle the ever-heavier burden that interactive webpages put on browsers’ scripting engines, Mozilla is working on a new ...

Ruby 3.3.0 brings significant performance improvements to YJIT and previews RJIT, an experimental just-in-time compiler that doesn’t require a C compiler at runtime ...