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Software Development
WebAssembly and the JVM: Two Answers to “Write Once, Run Anywhere”
Same bet, twenty years apart: a portable bytecode format run by a sandboxed virtual machine. In 1995, Sun Microsystems built…
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Core Java
How to Fix Jackson LocalDate JSON Parse Errors
Jackson is one of the most commonly used libraries for converting JSON data into Java objects and vice versa. When…
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Software Development
F#: The Functional Language Enterprises Could Actually Adopt
It shares the runtime, the packages, and the debugger with C#. That still was not enough. Elixir asks a team…
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Core Java
DB-Scheduler: A Reliable Scheduler for Java
Scheduling background jobs is a common requirement in Java applications. Applications often need to send notifications, generate reports, clean up…
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Core Java
Multiple Dispatch: Julia’s Different Answer to the Expression Problem
Sealed interfaces close the type list. Julia opens it, and the operation list, at once. A recent piece on this…
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Software Development
CUDA and the Vendor Lock-In Problem in GPU Programming
NVIDIA’s dominance in AI hardware is a software story as much as a chip story. Comparing CUDA, AMD’s ROCm, and…
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Software Development
Bash and PowerShell: Two Genuinely Different Philosophies of Scripting
Text streams versus typed object pipelines. It looks like a syntax difference. It is actually a disagreement about what a…
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Software Development
D’s Forty-Year Identity Crisis
Garbage collection, manual memory management, and metaprogramming were all offered as options rather than defaults. That flexibility was the entire…
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Software Development
Hardware Description Languages: Programming’s Strangest Corner
VHDL and Verilog look like ordinary programming languages, right up until you realize every line of a module runs at…
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