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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Java runtime solutions provider Azul Systems has just released Zing 17.03, the latest version of its Java Virtual Machine (JVM), with full support for its Falcon just-in-time (JIT) compiler. The ...

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 ...