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 ...

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The Java virtual machine (JVM) can perform some impressive optimizations to make deployed applications run faster. But having said that, the Java community remains well aware of the fact that the ...

You're claiming that they look too much like the classes in the languages you're used to when they have clear syntactic differences from classes in those languages, and you're claiming that they don't ...

In the quest for ever faster JavaScript, there has been a recurring refrain: why use JavaScript at all? JavaScript engines have been a major focus of browser developers for some years, and the result ...