PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A
Panel: What's Next for Our Programming Languages?
Types, testability, tooling, paradigms, productivity, managed, native, concurrency, parallelism, performance, asynchrony, integrations, memory management, security, resilience, or, maybe, simple readability? What are the important things crossing the minds of language designers today as they build new languages or evolve the tried and trusted ones?
QCon convenes a panel of four language designers. These are people at the heart of questions like these. The computer science language panel is led by Martin Thompson and participants include:
- Brian Goetz (Java)
- Joe Duffy (Midori, C# Fork)
- Felix Klock (Rust)
- Sylvan Clebsch (Pony)
Come hear Martin ask the hard questions on choices made (past and future) and hear the discussion from the people behind some of the largest and most innovative languages in use by developers today.
Speaker
Brian Goetz
Java Language Architect @Oracle
Brian Goetz is the Java Language Architect at Oracle, and was the specification lead for JSR-335 (Lambda Expressions for the Java Programming Language.) He is the author of the best-selling Java Concurrency in Practice, as well as over 75 articles on Java development, and has been fascinated by...
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Joe Duffy
Pulumi Co-founder & CEO, Previously @Microsoft Director of Engineering for Languages/Compilers
Joe Duffy is Co-founder & CEO of a stealth-mode cloud startup in Seattle, Pulumi. Prior to this, he was Director of Technical Strategy and Engineering in Microsoft's Developer Division, managing all of Microsoft's programming language, compiler, and static analysis products, and driving key...
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Martin Thompson
High Performance & Low Latency Specialist
Martin is a Java Champion with over 2 decades of experience building complex and high-performance computing systems. He is most recently known for his work on Aeron and SBE. Previously at LMAX he was the co-founder and CTO when he created the Disruptor. Prior to LMAX Martin worked for Betfair,...
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Sylvan Clebsch
CTO @Causality
Sylvan Clebsch is the designer of the Pony programming language. He works at Microsoft Research Cambridge in the Programming Language Principles group. He is interested in massively concurrent and distributed systems, garbage collection, type systems, actor-model programming, and trusted...
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Richard Feldman
Elm Pioneer & Software Engineer @noredink
Richard is the author of “Elm in Action” from Manning Publications, and the instructor for the Frontend Masters 2-Day Elm Workshop. When he’s not writing about Elm, teaching Elm, speaking about Elm, or co-hosting the San Francisco Elm meetup, he likes to take a break from his job at...
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Sylvan Clebsch
CTO @Causality
Location
Fleming, 3rd flr.
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