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Interview: Smalltalk Dave about Programming Languages, SOA, MDA and the Web
In an interview at OOPSLA, Dave Thomas talks about the reasons for the rise of Java, what's behind Web 2.0, MDA and SOA, the rise of dynamic languages and the opportunities that he sees in the web as a platform.
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MagLev: Gemstone builds Ruby runtime based on Smalltalk VM
OODB vendor Gemstone works on a Ruby VM called MagLev. Working with Seaside's and DabbleDB's Avi Bryant, Gemstone bases the Ruby runtime on their Smalltalk VM to offer performance and powerful persistence features. We talked to Avi Bryant and Gemstone's Bob Walker about the technology behind MagLev and the plans for it.
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Ruby Implementations Roundup: Ruby Spec, New Design Meetings, Rubinius uses C++
Busy times for Ruby implementors recently, with regular design meetings set up (next one 30th April). The work on a Ruby Spec is continuing - with projects in GSoC and plans for continous integration for Ruby 1.8.x set up. Rubinius switched from C to C++ to implement it's core VM, but continues to use Ruby as implementation language.
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Combining General Purpose Languages and Domain Specific Languages for Model Driven Engineering
In his last blog post, Johan den Haan asks one of the key questions of model driven engineering. The article is didactic and explains how ontological and linguistic metamodels can be combined (orthogonally) to simplify code generation while enabling the combination of general purpose languages and domain specific languages concepts. He uses BPEL and BPMN as a supporting example.
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Ruby 1.8.7 Preview released, includes some backports from 1.9
The first preview of Ruby 1.8.7 is now available. Among bug fixes, this new release of the stable branch includes backports of a few features from Ruby 1.9, such as Object#tap, Symbol#to_proc and Enumerators.
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JRuby 1.1 released with major performance improvements
JRuby 1.1 has been released, bringing massive performance increases due to the new JIT, a new Regex engine and other improvements. InfoQ talked to Ola Bini and Charles Nutter about the changes in the new release and the future directions of the project.
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RubyGems: 1.1.0 released, now works on Rubinius
RubyGems 1.1.0 was released with performance updates and other features. In other news: RubyGems now works on Rubinius.
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Microsoft shows Django running on IronPython
Microsoft recently had the opportunity to show off some of the progress the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) team has made when they gave a demo of Django running on IronPython. The accomplishment was shown during PyCon 2008 in Chicago, March 14-16, 2008.
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Article: Asynchronous Workflows in F#
In this third installment, Robert Pickering continues the conversation on F# and this time focuses on Asynchronous Workflows and the resulting performance gains obtained when used.
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HotRuby - Ruby 1.9/YARV opcode interpreter in Javascript
HotRuby is a new way of running Ruby code: compile it down to Ruby 1.9 bytecode and run it in a client side interpreter written in Javascript. We take a look at what makes HotRuby work.
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Using JRuby to generate Code for the JVM
While JRuby's performance keeps increasing, there are still algorithms that are faster if implemented in Java. We look at different approaches to solve this: RubyInline for JRuby, generating bytecode with a JRuby DSL and a new subset of Ruby called Duby.
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Microsoft Introduces Dynamic Silverlight
The Dynamic Language team at Microsoft recently introduced its latest technology called Dynamic Silverlight (DSL) at the MIX08 Conference in Las Vegas.
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Article: Deploying JRuby Applications with Java Web Start
JRuby allows to make application deployment easy by allowing to use Java Web Start. This article walks through the necessary steps for deploying a JRuby GUI application (an Object Browser). Additionally, it looks at Ahead Of Time (AOT) Compilation, a new feature in JRuby 1.1, which allows to compile Ruby code to Java bytecode at build time.
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JVM Dynamic Language Shootout
Travis Jensen compares Groovy, Jython and JRuby for developing web based user interfaces.
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New snapshot of Ruby 1.9, plans for 1.8.7 posted
Two months after the initial release of Ruby 1.9.0, a new snapshot 1.9.0-1 has been released. The release warrants a look, since it contains a few breaking changes and a few small additions like Proc#curry. Also: plans for Ruby 1.8.x, the next stable release were posted.