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Microsoft Surpasses Java's Dynamic Language Support?
Microsoft's announcement of the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) has caused quite a stir in many areas, also in the Java space. Many voices seem convinced that the DLR has given .NET a major head start over the JVM, because it solves many problems Java is only just starting to realize. We look at the current situation of dynamic language support and how it compares to the DLR.
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Introducing Visual Basic 10
With VB 9 slated to be released sometime this year, Microsoft is already talking about VB 10, also known as VBx. Key features include dynamic code generation like that you would expect in Lisp, Ruby, or Python. This opens up VB.Net for both Silverlight and Office.
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Dynamic Language Runtime Announced
Microsoft has announced that they are building an extension to the Common Language Runtime called the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). This extension is being designed to enable interoperability between dynamic languages in the same manner that the CLR enabled interoperability between statically typed languages.
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Microsoft announces IronRuby
Microsoft has just announced IronRuby at their MIX 07 conference. This also kicks off a bigger effort to support dynamic languages on .NET. Based on the experience gained in developing IronPython, a common Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) builds the foundation for IronRuby, IronPython, JavaScript (EcmaScript 3.0) and Visual Basic.
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Google SoC Series: ANTLR v3 Ruby Parser
Writing a Ruby parser is a challenging task, yet the XRuby team wrote one from scratch. A Google Summer of Code project will update the current parser to use ANTLR v3, and plans to produce a Ruby parser in Ruby in the process. InfoQ caught up with Wang Haofei to ask about the problems in parsing Ruby and the plans for the project.
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.NET Memory Leaks
A problem with .NET that isn't talked about is the problems caused by using dynamic code generation. In a nut shell, dynamic code generation, which is used in XML Serialization, Regular Expressions, and XSLT transformations, can lead to memory leaks.
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Strong Duck Typing Cut from VB 9
Visual Basic's implementation for duck typing, known as Dynamic Interfaces, has been cut from the Orcas release due to time constraints.
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Presentation: Simplifying Enterprise Development with Groovy
Guillaume Laforge, Groovy project manager, teaches how scripting with Groovy can increase your productivity and help you build and test solutions faster on the Java platform. Topics include Groovy the language, Ant builder, XML support, Swing support, Groovy's Meta Object Protocol, and more.
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Presentation: Dynamically Typed Languages for the JVM
Scripting languages are of growing importance, and they are typically dynamically typed. This session discusses improved support for these languages in the JVM, through the use of the new invokedynamic bytecode and through improved support for hot-swapping--modifying code and classes on the fly while maintaining the JVM software's security and integrity.
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Haskell the next language for Rubyists?
Now that Ruby holds no secrets from him, Antonio Cangiano explains why and how Haskell will satisfy his passion for language learning.
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In Case You Missed It: A .NET OpenID Library
For those of you looking at using OpenID, there is a .NET compatible library available. The Library was written in Boo, a .NET language inspired by Python. It also leverages a library from the Mono project.
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Book Download: Mr. McNeighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book
The Humble Little Ruby Book covers the base syntax of the language, including working with values, flow control, and object oriented programming, into some of the library functionality of Ruby, such as databases, web services, and string manipulation.
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InfoQ Book: Getting Started With Grails
In this latest InfoQ book, Jason Rudolph introduces Grails, an open-source, web-app development framework that provides a super-productive full-stack programming model based on the Groovy scripting language and built on top of Spring, Hibernate, and other standard Java frameworks. Over the course of this book, the reader will explore Grails and experience it by building a Grails app.
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Groovy Eclipse Plugin Updated Including Basic Code Completion
The Groovy Eclipse plugin has been updated to make use of Groovy 1.0 and includes basic code completion among its features.
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Groovy 1.0 Released
Groovy 1.0 was officially released today after last month's release candidate. 2007 is shaping up to be a important year in the evolution of the Groovy language with a number of developer and book announcements.