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Victor Campos | July 31, 2026
Ortus & BoxLang July Recap 2026

July continued to showcase the rapid evolution of the Ortus ecosystem with major BoxLang releases, innovative developer tools, and expanded AI capabilities. From new runtime features and cloud-native integrations to practical learning resources and technical deep dives, this month's highlights reflect Ortus' commitment to building modern, high-performance solutions for the JVM.

The month also featured community initiatives, conference resources, and international events, including CFCa

Into the Box 2026 Presentation Slides Are Now Available Part II

Victor Campos |  July 24, 2026

The Into the Box 2026 Presentation Slides Are Now Available - Part II

Welcome back to our recap series! We are thrilled to announce that Part 2 of our In...

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Building Native CLI Apps with MatchBox & Native Fusion

Jacob Beers |  July 14, 2026

MatchBox makes BoxLang practical for a classic deployment target: the single-file command-line application.

The MatchBox open beta is available at https://github.com/ortus-boxlang/matchbox.

With the MatchBox native target, you can compile a .bxs script into a standalone executable for macOS, Linux, or Windows. The generated binary includes the MatchBox VM core and your compiled BoxLang bytecode. It does not require a JVM, a separate MatchBox install, or any runtime on the target machine.

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BoxLang 1.15.0 Released: Blazing Fast Strings, Runtime Portability, and much more

Luis Majano |  July 09, 2026

BoxLang 1.15.0 is a high-impact release with two big headlines and a long tail of hardening. The first headline is a massive performance upgrade to string handling: a new first-class BoxStringBuilder type, compile-time literal folding, smarter &= semantics, and a runtime concat strategy that automatically switches to builder-backed accumulation once your expression gets big enough. Your existing string-heavy code just got faster. No rewrites required.

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MatchBox Web Server: BoxLang Without the Full Server Stack

Victor Campos |  July 07, 2026

MatchBox includes a native web runtime for building small, fast BoxLang web applications without requiring a JVM or a traditional servlet container. You can follow the MatchBox open beta at https://github.com/ortus-boxlang/matchbox. There are two related pieces in the beta today: a webroot server for .bxm templates and static assets, and a routed app server built around web.server(). Both are early, but they show the direction clearly: BoxLang should be able to serve HTTP from a compact native runtime when the application does not need the full JVM stack.

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Ortus & BoxLang June Recap 2026

Victor Campos |  July 06, 2026

July was packed with exciting advancements across the Ortus ecosystem, bringing new BoxLang releases, powerful developer tools, and continued innovation in AI and multi-runtime development.

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