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Foojay Podcast #97: From Scripting Language to AI Powerhouse: How BoxLang Is Redefining JVM Development

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:57:25 +0000

BoxLang is a modern dynamic JVM language built for rapid application development. It’s 100% Java-interoperable, compiles to JVM bytecode, and deployable anywhere from OS to AWS Lambda to Spring Boot. In this episode, we sit down with Luis Majano (CEO of Ortus Solutions and creator of BoxLang) and Cristobal Escobar (BoxLang community manager) to dig into the wave of innovation that has hit the platform over the past few months.

Introducing BoxLings! An interactive teacher for BoxLang and TDD/BDD

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:48:57 +0000

We believe the best way to learn a programming language is by writing code — real code, with real feedback, and real tests. That’s exactly why we built BoxLings.

Inspired by the beloved rustlings project, BoxLings is an interactive CLI tool that teaches you BoxLang through hands-on exercises. You read failing tests, fix broken code, and level up — one exercise at a time.

Oh, and the whole thing is written in BoxLang itself. 🥊 Dogfooding at its finest.

BoxLang AI v3 Has Landed - Multi-Agent Orchestration, Tooling, Skills and so much more

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:03:58 +0000

It’s been a while since we’ve shipped something this big. BoxLang AI 3.0 is a ground-up rethink of how AI agents, models, and tools work in the BoxLang ecosystem — and it lands with ten major features at once.

The headline is the AI Skills system : a first-class implementation of Anthropic’s Agent Skills open standard that lets you define reusable knowledge blocks: coding styles, domain rules, tone policies, API guidelines once in a SKILL.md file and inject them into any number of agents and models at runtime. No more copy-pasting the same system-prompt boilerplate everywhere. Skills are versioned, composable, and come in two modes: always-on (full content in every call) and lazy (only a name + description until the LLM asks for more).

BoxLang Dynamic JVM Language Release 1.9.0

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:16:19 +0000

Houston, Texas – January 2025 – Ortus Solutions, a leading innovator in professional open-source development, today announced the release of BoxLang 1.9.0, a major stability and compatibility release focused on production-readiness. This release resolves over 50 critical bugs and introduces significant enhancements to datasource management, context lifecycle handling, and web form processing for mission-critical enterprise applications.

Production-Ready Enhancements

BoxLang 1.9.0 delivers critical improvements based on real-world client migrations and production deployments:

BoxLang Native Couchbase Module

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:37:02 +0000

Ortus Solutions is thrilled to announce the official release of bx-couchbase v1.0 , a groundbreaking module that brings native enterprise-grade Couchbase capabilities to the BoxLang language and ecosystem. Designed for modern distributed applications, bx-couchbase unifies high-performance caching, resilient distributed locking, and advanced AI vector memory—empowering developers to build scalable, intelligent, fault-tolerant systems with unprecedented ease.

Couchbase + BoxLang: A High-Performance Combination

Couchbase is more than a database—it’s a distributed NoSQL platform engineered for speed, flexibility, and global scale. With sub-millisecond key-value operations, built-in vector search, and multi-data-center support, it is the ideal foundation for next-generation AI-powered applications.

BoxLang 1.7 Released!

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:59:50 +0000

Dynamic JVM Language Adds Server-Sent Events, JDBC Cache Store, and AST Generation Capabilities

Houston, TX – November 7, 2025 – Ortus Solutions announced the release of BoxLang 1.7.0, a major update to its modern dynamic language for the JVM that delivers enterprise-grade capabilities for building real-time, horizontally scalable, and AI-driven applications.

This release introduces native Server-Sent Events (SSE) for real-time streaming, JDBC-powered distributed caching , Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) programmatic access, and bytecode compatibility versioning—alongside extensive performance optimizations across the runtime.