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Redline Smalltalk aims to bring Smalltalk to the JVM

#james ladd #jvm #smalltalk #smalltalk redline

A project to bring Smalltalk to the JVM is seeking $20,000 in donations for development of its 1.0 release.

It's a kind of JVM Magik

Spotlight on Magik – the newest JVM language

#ge energy #groovt #groovy #invokedynamic #java #java 7 #jsr 292 #jvm #magik #oracle #scala #smalltalk #smallworld

Thanks to invokedynamic, a number of dynamic JVM languages can gain prominence. So what marks out the latest arrival Magik?

Xtensive new language features

Eclipse’s JVM language Xtend reaches 2.3 M7

#eclipse #groovy #java #java bean #juno #jvm #scala #smalltalk #xtend

With June’s release imminent of Xtend, Sven Efftinge reveals just some of what’s new for the JVM statically typed language

Daily Roundup

Seam 3.0 RC3 Released

#android #firebug #firefox #glassfish #java #javascript #jenkins #maemo #open source #seam #selenium #smalltalk #solder

PLUS, Mozilla Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo, and Selenium 2.0 Beta 3.

Newspeak Interview

Gilad Bracha on Newspeak

#java #jax #jvm #language wars #newspeak #self #smalltalk

JAXenter speaks with Newspeak creator Gilad Bracha about Newspeak, the new languages for the JVM, and the future of Java…….

Eclipse

Tricept To Resell Instantiations’ Eclipse and Smalltalk Products

#eclipse #gwt #instantiations #smalltalk #swing #swt designer #tricept

Instantiations and Tricept have announced a business partnership, in which Tricept will resell Instantiations’ Eclipse Java and Smalltalk products in […]

Licensing Changes

Squeak 4.0 Now Dual-Licensed Under MIT and Apache

#apache #mit #open source #smalltalk #squeak #squeakvm

The Squeak open source implementation of the Smalltalk language and runtime will now be released under a new dual-license. Squeak […]

Gilad Bracha Interview

Gilad Bracha: ‘Java is becoming Cobol 2.0.’

#cloud #cobol #garbage collection #java #jax #newspeak #open source #smalltalk

JAX London may have just gone, but the next JAX conference is already on the horizon, with JAX Germany scheduled to take place in Germany in May. At JAX Germany, creator of the Newspeak programming language Gilad Bracha will deliver a sessions on Newspeak and conduct a ‘Java Post Mortem.’JAXenter caught up with Gilad Bracha to learn more about what JAX Germany attendees can expect from his sessions…..