Software that must be running in the computer for applications to execute. For example, all programming language interpreters are runtime engines. They convert the program, which is in its original ...

Will Google deliver its own dynamic language runtime? It's been over a year since Microsoft announced its dynamic language runtime (DLR), a software layer on top of .Net that allows dynamic languages, ...

.NET (pronounced “dot net” and sometimes written as .Net) is an open source development platform consisting of a software development framework and an accompanying ecosystem of tools, languages, and ...

Earlier last month, Ars Technica had a pretty good catch-me-up on the efforts of Sun and Microsoft to introduce "external" dynamic language support to their respective runtime environments Java and ...

The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...