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Category Archives: Dynamic Languages

Steve Yegge on dynamic language optimization

I’ve been underwater trying to get a release out the door ever since I got back from Germany two weeks ago, and so haven’t had much time to do anything interesting. But last night I read a fantastic transcript of a talk by Steve Yegge of Google called Dynamic Languages Strike Back. If you care [...]

History Meme

Tim Bray and Mark Pilgrim have done it, so I thought I’d throw my command line history into the mix. Interestingly, I’ve been doing a lot of ruby on rails work over the last few weeks and it has skewed my command line use away from java based stuff like ant and maven:

~ % history [...]

Adobe’s Christmas Present for Mobile Developers

Tamarin-Tracing: Open source ActionScript3 VM for mobile platforms, contributed to Mozilla’s Tamarin Project. Written in Forth! I personally can’t wait to bring our Flex3 apps down to the mobile platform…
[Update 12-19-2007: fixed name of technology. thanks for the correction.]

Mozilla Monkeying Around with Tamarin

But in a really good way. Brendan Eich has announced 3 cool new projects around the Tamarin engine Adobe contributed to the Mozilla project:

ActionMonkey, which will merge SpiderMonkey and Tamarin. Not really a new project, but lots more details are available.
ScreamingMonkey, which will allow Tamarin to be invoked from within IE. Not clear to me [...]