Author: Geertjan Wielenga Original post on Foojay: Read More When developers first hear about Temporal, they tend to move through a predictable sequence of emotions. First comes disbelief — the claim that your application can crash mid-execution and simply pick up where it left off, variables intact, sounds like nonsense. Then comes irritation that anyone would even say such a …

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 …