PANEL DISCUSSION + Live Q&A
Panel: Future of Languages
In this panel, we will talk to these programming languages experts and try to find the places where we could probably past each other to try to find common ground.
Speaker
Andrea Magnorsky
Functional Languages Programmer
I ended up as a Software Developer, I am pretty sure there was no other viable option. My current technical interests are F#, games, programming languages and philosophy of computing . I really enjoy finding different ways to write code, sometimes for performance, other times for succinctness,...
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Speaker
Noel Welsh
Founding partner @underscoreio
Noel is a founding partner at Underscore, where he helps teams become more productive with Scala and functional programming. Noel has 20 years experience working on systems ranging from recommender systems, to web services, to embedded software. His main technical interests are functional...
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Speaker
Ashley Williams
Core Rust Team @RustLang
Rust Core team. Rust and Webassembly WG Core team. WebAssembly and edge computation at Cloudflare. Previously, worked on the Rust Programming Language and WebAssembly for Mozilla, and before that, wrote and maintained Rust and Node.js backend services at NPM, Inc. Rust core team member and leads...
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Speaker
Stephen Klabnik
Rust Core Team
Steve is on the core team of Rust, leads the documentation team, and is an author of "The Rust Programming Language." Klabnik is a frequent speaker at conferences and is a prolific open source contributor, previously working on projects such as Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
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Speaker
Ron Pressler
Technical Lead for Project Loom @oracle
I am the technical lead for Project Loom, which aims to add delimited continuations, fibers and tail-calls to the JVM.
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Speaker
Stephen Klabnik
Rust Core Team
Location
St James, 4th flr.
Track
The Right Language for the Job
Topics
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