GCC Patches Posted for Half-Century Old Algol 68 Programming Language(phoronix.com) Mere hours into 2025 and some news I didn't expect to be writing about... An Oracle engineer has posted a set of patches implementing an ALGOL 68 programming language front-end for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). These are work-in-progress patches for the half century old niche programming language.
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A basic introduction to the classfile API in Java(ifesunmola.com) JEP 484 defines the class file API as a standard way for parsing, generating, and transforming Java class files. You’ll never need to use it if you don’t write/never plan to write a JVM-based library, framework or compiler. ASM would still be the go-to library for most developers because there’s already a lot of information about it online.
As of the time of writing, the API is still in preview and will be finalized with the release of JDK 24.