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BoxLang 1.15.0 Released: Blazing Fast Strings, Runtime Portability, and much more

Author: Cristobal Escobar Original post on Foojay: Read More BoxLang 1.15.0 is a high-impact release with two big headlines and a long tail of hardening. The first headline is a massive performance upgrade to string handling: a new first-class BoxStringBuilder type, compile-time literal folding, smarter &= semantics, and a runtime concat strategy that automatically switches to builder-backed accumulation once your …

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I Asked GitHub Copilot to Profile a Java App. It Found a Bug in My Heap Sizing, and Offered to Fix It

Author: Bruno Borges Original post on Foojay: Read More I built an extension to collapse the entire loop of running and measuring the performance of Java workloads, so it can be used within a place some developers are starting to consider their new “development environment” in the agentic AI era: the GitHub Copilot app. The idea: Copilot-driven profiling This extension …

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Foojay Podcast #100: When a Podcaster Interviews Podcasters, and What They All Have in Common

Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More Foojay Podcast hits episode 100. No plan, no roadmap. It just happened. To mark the occasion, Frank turned the microphone around and invited other podcasters: Adam Bien (airhacks.fm), Jennifer Reif (Breaktime Tech Talks), Kadi McKean and Steve Pool (10xInsights), and Oumaima Zerouali (JCast). Same three questions for each: why did you …

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