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[Ancestors of the OS, Part 4] The Essence of the GUI Steve Jobs Saw—Where 3,441 Files of an Extinct Language Sleep

I found the code of the "progenitor" in a corner of GitHub. Xerox Cedar/Mesa. A proprietary programming language and integrated development environment designed by Xerox PARC in the 1970s and 1980s.
InfoQ

Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...
InfoQ

Google Releases A2UI v0.9: Portable, Framework-Agnostic Generative UI

Google has released A2UI v0.9, a framework-agnostic standard for AI agents to declare user interface intent across multiple ...
ADTmag

TomEE 11 Milestone and Hibernate ORM 8 Beta Signal Jakarta EE Modernization Push

Open-source Java projects advance Jakarta EE compatibility, persistence capabilities, and developer tooling as enterprise teams prepare for the next generation of Java applications.