It is a happy day here at Ortus Solutions as we bring you yet again a plethora of releases of all our major open source libraries. This is the culmination of over 6 months of hard work to get you updates for all of our major open source libraries and even a new library, TestBox. You can read more about our releases in our engineering blog:
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There is a moment in every language's evolution when a convenience syntax grows up and becomes something worth thinking about. For BoxLang, that moment arrived with ranges. We had always wanted to be able to do this in our CFML apps, and we finally can
BoxLang 1.14 ships with one of the most developer-friendly OOP features we've built yet: local template classes. If you've ever created a throwaway .bx file just to hold a five-line helper class, this one's for you.
The MatchBox open beta is live at https://boxlang.ortusbooks.com/boxlang-framework/matchbox, and it brings something genuinely new to the BoxLang ecosystem: a path into WebAssembly.
That means BoxLang code can now move into browser applications, static-site deployments, edge runtimes, and WASI-style containers - without requiring a JVM. The feature is still beta, but the core direction is already useful: write BoxLang, compile it with MatchBox, and ship the generated WASM artifact to wherever a small portable runtime makes sense.
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