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Rush - OOP shell in Ruby
Rush is a new OOP shell written in Ruby. Unlike shells like bash, Rush has commands interacting with objects instead of strings, which allows to use regular Ruby constructs to iterate over files and other objects. Rush goes further with remote shell functionality and more. InfoQ caught up with Adam Wiggins the creator of Rush.
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JRuby 1.1RC2 released with reduced memory requirements
The JRuby 1.1 release is inching closer: Release Candidate 2 is out - and it's a big update with many bug fixes. A big update was the work on the Ruby to JVM bytecode JIT, which now requires less memory and shares JITed code among multiple JRuby runtimes in the same JVM.
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Interview: Wilson Bilkovich Discusses Rubinius
Wilson Bilkovich is an Engine Yard employee working as a core Rubinius team member. Wilson discusses various Rubinius systems and how they're implemented, as well as distributed version control systems, the Ruby Hit Squad, RubyGems and more.
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Bill Burke on Dynamic Languages: Rationalizations and Myths
"Am I just a Java fanboy?" - this is a good question. And it is one that Bill Burke does answer in his blog post Dynamic Languages: Rationalizations and Myths. But along with the post comes an overwhelming response, and insight into where we are heading as a community.
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Dynamic Languages on the CLR and JVM
John Rose, a key designer behind Sun's new Da Vinci Machine project initiative, and Charles Nutter of the JRuby project, contrast dynamic language support and optimization on the JVM and Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime.
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Scalability: Dynamic and Static Programming Languages
In the wake of the demise of Chandler personal information management project, a discussion has occurred on TSS about the scalability potential of dynamic languages. Ted Neward attempted to go beyond language quarrel in order to provide some structured insights on this issue.
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Ruby.NET future uncertain
Dr. Wayne Kelly, of the Ruby.NET project, announced he'll be shifting his focus to Microsoft's IronRuby, partly due to the DLR technology. However, it's not certain whether this means the end of the Ruby.NET project.
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JSPWeaver removes the first-person penalty from JSP development
ZeroTurnaround's JSPWeaver is a real-time interpreter for JSP which aims to remove the first-person penalty encountered when the server creates and compiles the background servlet from the JSP mark-up.
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C# Team talks about the future with Future Focus
The C# team members of Charlie Calvert and Mads Torgersen announced they are creating Future Focus, a series of monthly blog posts detailing plans for future versions of C#.
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Draft DLR Hosting Spec Released
An updated draft of the DLR Hosting Spec has been released. This document covers hosting DLR-based languages with a focus on Silverlight, MerlinWeb, and interactive consoles. As it is just a draft, many of the developer notes explaining what they are trying to accomplish are still present.
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Interview: The State of IronRuby with John Lam
InfoQ had the opportunity to talk with John Lam about how far along the IronRuby team is getting IronRuby released.
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The state of the Lambda in Ruby 1.9
One of Ruby 1.9's little additions is a new, more concise way to create lambda functions, amongst some other clarifications in the way Blocks work. We take a look at the changes and the reasons for them.
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Programming languages in future systems
The trend seems to be clear; in the next few years there will be an increase in adoption of new programming languages and systems will be written in multiple languages. But what does the mix look like, and which languages are suitable for what? In a recent post, language explorer and JRuby developer Ola Bini describes what future systems may look like.
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Multiple Techniques Seek to Bring Dynamic Deployment to JEE
Web application developers using dynamically typed interpreted languages like PHP, Python or Ruby are used to being able to make a change in their application and see it immediately by refreshing the browser. A number of vendors are looking to improve the situation for Java with two techniques being actively researched.
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Article: What's New in Groovy 1.5
Over the weekend the Groovy team released version 1.5 which contains numerous Java 5 language additions, enhanced tooling support, and performance improvements. In conjunction with Groovy Project Manager Guillaume Laforge, InfoQ is running an article detailing the new features of the release.