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The LuaJIT Language Toolkit is an implementation of the Lua programming language written in Lua itself. It works by generating LuaJIT bytecode, including debug information, and uses LuaJIT's virtual ...

In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...

In the world of software engineering, code can take multiple forms from the time it's written by a programmer to the moment it is executed by a computer. What begins as high-level source code, written ...

PjOrion obfuscates the original file and introduces several wrapper layers on top of it. The purpose of these layers is simply to (sort of) decrypt the next inner layer and execute it via an EXEC_STMT ...

HotSpot, from Oracle, is the leading choice of most developers across the globe. And it tops our list of software that interprets Java bytecode. The program, which is originally known as the Java ...

Microsoft has joined the Bytecode Alliance, a group aiming to expand WebAssembly beyond the browser and JavaScript to native applications for desktop and mobile platforms. The Bytecode Alliance, ...

The Bytecode Alliance, formed by Fastly, Intel, Mozilla, and Red Hat to move WebAssembly beyond the browser, has created a non-profit organization with the help of Microsoft to further their cause.