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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ruby 3.3.0 brings significant performance improvements to YJIT and previews RJIT, an experimental just-in-time compiler that doesn’t require a C compiler at runtime ...

Microsoft has released a community technology preview (CTP) of a new 64-bit compiler for the .NET Framework that will become the basis for all its future compilers. Andrew Pardoe, PM Manager for the ...