Six months after the 2.7 release of the Low-Level Virtual Machine compiler infrastructure, the 2.8 version is now available. The previous version of the LLVM's front end, the Clang C/C++ compiler, was the first that could compile itself. Now 2.8 features...
0 replies - 14457 views - 10/07/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
There's no rest for Microsoft's Silverlight team. They are already preparing to schedule new features to go into Silverlight 5. Version 4 was announced at the MIX 10 conference, and in an effort to maintain their fast tempo of Silverlight releases,...
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Goojje: Google's Chinese Sister
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It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7. Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference. Before today, Sun could not reach a consensus on the inclusion of closures in JDK 7. Three proposals for closures were...
0 replies - 12030 views - 11/18/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News