GraalVM is a new open source project by Oracle which is trying to make Java VM an universal VM to run all the major languages. Before GraalVM, there were already few languages like Scala, Closure which targeted JVM as their runtime. This has been hugely s... (more…)

A Java parser combinator library written with an unmatched feature set. - norswap/autumn... (more…)

Over the past year my team has been doing something shocking to a lot of engineers: we’re favoring pure Java over Clojure. We aren’t …...

Each of us would have encountered decision trees and rule engines of various kinds in our software journeys. Rule engines are typically structured as a set of rules that are evaluated against a Context. Bonsai is a data structure that models such engines ... (more…)

I was very surprised to read so many negative and incorrect claims about Java EE in the recent Gartner's Market Guide for Application Platforms.