In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...

In this article I defined a process and an identifiability metric for a software application that can give a developer an idea of how easy or difficult it is to identify bytecode as being derived from ...

Eclipse is an open-source, extensible integrated development environment (IDE) that's growing quickly in popularity. Written in Java, it provides a multilanguage development environment that allows ...

Intel, Mozilla, Red Hat, and Fastly announced today the creation of the Bytecode Alliance, an open-source foundation that will work to make WebAssembly into a cross-platform runtime that can be used ...

In the quest for ever faster JavaScript, there has been a recurring refrain: why use JavaScript at all? JavaScript engines have been a major focus of browser developers for some years, and the result ...