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Longjumps, Tailcalls, Tuples for the JVM
This summer, John Rose made a series of posts described as "some exciting articles about the future of the JVM," including long jumps, tail calls and tuples. These could be folded into the Java language, but can also be seen as important for supporting other languages on the JVM, including both functional and dynamic languages.
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Ruby Shoes for lightweight GUIs, graphics and animation
Ruby GUI toolkits are a dime dozen - but Why The Lucky Stiff managed to create one with a novel approach. Ruby Shoes facilitates animation, 2D graphics, and simple interaction. We take a look at its distinguishing features.
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IronRuby now on Rubyforge
IronRuby, Microsoft's implementation of Ruby for .NET, is now hosted on RubyForge. The current state of the code is available via the Subversion repository.
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Language Designers: Add WPF Support to Your .NET Language
A new version of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SDK preview has been released. Among the new samples is a way to add WPF support to a .NET language.
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Jython Receives First Major Release in 4 Years with Version 2.2
The Jython team has released the first major release of Jython in 4 years with version 2.2. This version implements the internal architecture of Python 2.2 and features of Python 2.3.
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Ruby 1.9 adds Fibers for lightweight concurrency
Fibers were recently in the Ruby 1.9 branch. The Coroutine-like concept has many uses, such as implementing lightweight concurrency and others. We look at the concept and influences of Fibers in Ruby 1.9, as well as code samples.
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Ruby Hoedown Presentations available online
Videos of the sessions from the Ruby Hoedown conference are now available online. Topics such as Merb, Ruby tuning, VoIP with Ruby are covered, as well as Smalltalk and Ruby history and much more.
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Gemstone OODB to support JRuby, Rubinius
Gemstone is working on Ruby support for their Object Database products, starting off with JRuby. We talked to Alan McKean from Gemstone about what's to come, technical details and Gemstone's plans with Rubinius.
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Presentation: Applying Agile to Ruby
In this presentation, Fred George talks about the application of agile practices in the enterprise and how they can help with the adoption of Ruby.
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Groovy as a business user language?
With its inclusion into OpenOffice as the VBA equivalent for that suite, Groovy has an opportunity to become something that Java will never be: a tool that business power users use to customize their office suite and build workgroup applications.
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Java Language Runtime (JLR) project created
A new project aims to increase collaboration among JVM based languages. The Java Language Runtime aims to collect code that is common among languages targeting the JVM and prevent duplication among the providers of JRuby, Jython, Groovy, and many others.
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Inside IronRuby PreAlpha1
This week at OSCON, John Lam of Microsoft released IronRuby to the masses and promised to host the source code on Rubyforge under the Microsoft Permissive License by the end of August. Infoq sent John several questions asking about futures and how the community could best particpate in the development of IronRuby.
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Rubinius Internals: Threading, ObjectSpace, Debugging
We continue the interview with Rubinius creator Evan Phoenix and talk about internals of how the VM uses bytecode manipulation for fast debugging, problems of implementing ObjectSpace and Threading.
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Ruby.NET moves to open source community model
The team of the (Gardens Point) Ruby.NET compiler announced that it'll start working towards opening their project to outside committers.
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Wiki-style GUI Layout with Profligacy and LEL
Profligacy is a new JRuby based GUI library created by Zed Shaw. It's aimed at tackling the GUI layout problem with LEL, a compact Wiki-like notation for GUI layouts.