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 ...

Chronon Systems, which offers technology for recording and playing back Java programs, contends that the bytecode verifier featured in Java 7 is a huge step backward for the Java virtual machine. “The ...

Compilers are a bit like Florida election officials: They’re suddenly in the spotlight after years of relative anonymity. The reason for the attention is the arrival of fast and complex 64-bit ...