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| | Update 2012-01-22: "JavaScript myth: JavaScript needs a standard bytecode" is an updated version of this blog post. The web and thus JavaScript is slowly turning into a great platform. Part of the allure of the (partially) competing Java platform is that it has a core that goes beyond "Java the language": The Java Virtual Machine (JVM). There are now many languages that target the JVM, for example: Groovy, JRuby, Fantom, Jython, Scala, ABCL, Clojure, and Gosu. Java class files store JVM programs as Java bytecode, a compact binary format that source code is compiled to. Does JavaScript have something similar?
| | java-source.net
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| | [AI summary] The article discusses various open-source scripting languages and tools compatible with the Java platform, such as Groovy, Jython, BeanShell, Rhino, JRuby, and others, highlighting their features and use cases.
| | bloeys.com
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| | In 'Thought 2: Regex is Like Assembly' I wondered why we are still doing regex in this kind of hard to understand, symbolic way, when we have already invented high level programming languages. There is no reason regex can't be written as clearly as any other programming language we use today. I thought doing this would be an interesting project, and so I came up with Regexl, a high level language for writing regex, that can be used as a simple library.
| | blog.fogus.me
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| [AI summary] The author reflects on the cyclical nature of programming language innovation, noting a slowdown in paradigm shifts since the 2010s and predicting a future where languages evolve into integrated system components due to AI and niche constraints.