Red Hat ships piping hot Ceylon to curry favor with Java-weary devs

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 14, 2013 1:19 PM
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After more than three years of development, Red Hat has released version 1.0.0 of Ceylon, its homebrewed, open-source programming language that's designed to be a replacement for Java. In its current form, King describes Ceylon as a "cross-platform" language. The 1.0.0 release, announced at the Devoxx conference in Antwerp, Belgium on Tuesday, includes compilers that can output either Java bytecode or JavaScript.

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