Author: Cristobal Escobar Original post on Foojay: Read More BoxLang has never stood still, but 1.14.0 is something different. This is the release where the language stops filling gaps and starts defining what a modern dynamic JVM language looks like on its own terms. Sixty-five issues closed. Four innovative language features. A formatter that has grown up. And a companion …

Author: Kirk Pepperdine Original post on Foojay: Read More One of the misconceptions that I continuously run into is that nulling out references in Java helps garbage collection. This attitude is particularly prevalent from those developers used to C/C++ where delete ptr becomes ref = null. To be fair, it’s a reasonable thing to believe. It’s also wrong, and the …

Author: Dominika Tasarz Original post on Foojay: Read More Every so often a story comes along that belongs to an entire community rather than any one company or person. The Java Story documentary by CultRepo is one of those. On July 17th at 7pm UTC, the official Java documentary premieres live on YouTube – if you’ve spent any significant part …