In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...

Charles Nutter‘s “JVM Bytecode for Dummies (and for the rest of you, as well)” was the last technical session for me early Monday evening. It was held in the Hilton San Francisco Yosemite Ballroom A/B ...

PHP, for all of its shortcomings, is still an extremely popular language and a useful one as well. One of the things that makes it so useful – its dynamic and interpreted nature – also makes it more ...

JavaScriptCore, the JavaScript engine for Apple’s WebKit browser engine, has been upgraded with a new bytecode format that improves memory efficiency and type safety. The goal of the format, detailed ...