Does Language Still Matter in the Age of AI? Yes — But the Tradeoff Has Changed
Table of Contents The Bottleneck Has MovedAI Produces Code Faster Than Teams Can Review ItWhy Verbose Languages Are Making a ComebackBoilerplate Is Now SignalThe research backs this upWhat this means in practiceThe Other Half: Runtime PerformanceThe benchmarks tell the storyWhere ...
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Introducing the BoxLang Spring Boot Starter: Dynamic JVM Templating for Spring
Table of Contents 🌐 What is BoxLang?✨ Zero-Config Spring Boot IntegrationGradleGradle🚀 From Controller to Template in Minutes🌐 Full Web Scopes — Out of the Box🔥 Hot-Reload During Development⚙️ Configuration That Stays Out of Your Way🔀 Coexist With Any Other View …
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BoxLang 1.11.0 Release
Table of Contents 🚀 What’s New in 1.11.0⚡ Performance Wave — 15+ Targeted Runtime Speedups🔒 Concurrency & Lock Safety — Critical Fix🗓️ DateTime Casting Reliability🆕 enforceUDFTypeChecks Configuration Setting⏱️ getTickCount() — Nanosecond & Second Precision🗑️ New BIF: ExecutorDelete()🤖 Core Runtime Updates🏗️ …
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JC-AI Newsletter #14
Two weeks have passed and a lot have been happening on the field of artificial-intelligence. Two weeks have passed and a lot has been silently yet visibly happening in the field of artificial intelligence. This newsletter brings interesting developments, including …
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Announcing Cloud-Native BoxLang for $5/Month
Table of Contents Cloud-Native BoxLang Has Never Been Easier💰 Production-Ready for $5/Month🎯 Who Is This For?⚡ What You Get Out of the Box🚀 Deploy in 3 Clicks🔧 Grow Beyond the Basics🥊 Why BoxLang + DigitalOcean?📖 Get Started Today🎉 Ready to …
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Unikernel: Profiling and Troubleshooting JVM on Nanos Unikernel
Table of Contents Profiling a Java Application Running Inside an Unikernel with JProfilerExplanationDirsArgsRunConfigBaseVolumeSzWhat this command doesInstrumentation PhaseFinal State Profiling a Java Application Running Inside an Unikernel with JProfiler Unikernels are often associated with minimalism and tight resource control. But can …
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DocBox v5 – Reborn: Modern API Docs for BoxLang & CFML
Table of Contents What’s IncludedThe Evolution: One Tool, Three Flavors 🎭🎨 Theme System: Documentation That Doesn’t Look Like It’s From 2005Flavor #1: DocBox Core Library 📚Flavor #2: bx-docbox (BoxLang Native CLI) ⚡Flavor #3: CommandBox Integration 📦Fully Documented & MCP ServerWhat’s …
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BoxLang AI v2: Enterprise AI Development Without the Complexity
Table of Contents What Makes This Release Groundbreaking?🎯 Summary🤖 Autonomous AI Agents⚡ Serverless AI Agents on AWS Lambda🔄 Autonomous Agents with BoxLang Scheduler🧬 Multi-Tenant Vector Memory & RAG📚 Document Loaders for 30+ Formats🔌 12+ AI Provider Support📡 Model Context Protocol …
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Not a Lucid Web3 Dream Anymore: x402, ERC-8004, A2A, and The Next Wave of AI Commerce
Table of Contents Vocabulary for this articleForewordPart 1 – Bringing companies on-chain with x402Part 2- Introduction: Beyond Ads and Subscriptions: Agent Commerce on x402 and ERC-8004Part 3 – Tech that will change the internetAgent commerce, x402, and ERC-8004: from ad-funded …
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Optimizing Java for the Cloud-Native Era with Quarkus
Table of Contents What does Quarkus have to offer?Developer joy with live coding and dev modeCost efficiency and performanceReactive at its coreWhich of your current development pains could Quarkus solve?Dev ServicesVast extension ecosystem“OK, I would like to try it, but …
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Java and Jakarta EE and the Evolution of the Cloud with Nanos Unikernel
Table of Contents Why Nanos UnikernelWhat Changes Compared to KubernetesNanos Images = Cloud-Native Immutable ImagesCI/CD: GitHub Actions for Building Azul 25 + Payara 7 on Nanos ImagesScaling: The Hypervisor Does Kubernetes’ JobApplication Upgrades: Rolling Just Like KubernetesSecurity: Stronger Isolation than …