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Chainguard, the trusted source for open source, today announced it has expanded Chainguard Libraries coverage across Python, Java, and JavaScript, with customers seeing 94% coverage across the Python ...

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The Detroit project envisioned using JavaScript as an extension language for Java applications. Now it’s being revived with ...