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Taming The Wild Frontier - Adventures in ClojureScript
John Stevenson discusses the benefits of using ClojureScript to write web applications.
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Always Available
Claudio Ortolina discusses leveraging Elixir/OTP tools to provide continuous service even when a database is down, walking through the refactoring of an Elixir/Phoenix/PostgreSQL application.
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From Front-end to Full Stack with Elixir & Phoenix
Lauren Tan discusses how one can create web applications with Elixir and Phoenix.
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Elm and Phoenix: Two FP Flavors That Taste Great Together
Josh Adams discusses the basics of creating apps in Elm with a Phoenix back-end, using real-world examples of how the two work together in Firestorm, an open-source forum engine.
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Parasitic Programming Languages
David Nolen examines the benefits and tradeoffs associated with creating a language based on an existing runtime, with a special focus on the Clojure and ClojureScript projects.
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The Engineer's Guide to HotSpot JIT Compilation
Monica Beckwith discusses the performance introduced by adaptive compilation in the OpenJDK Hotspot VM, focusing on the internals of OpenJDK 8, the reference implementation for Java SE8.
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Phoenix and Elm – Making the Web Functional
Chris McCord and Evan Czaplicki keynote on the birth, development and benefits of using their respective tools they created for web development: Phoenix and Elm.
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Rust: Systems Programming for Everyone
Felix Klock describes the core concepts of the Rust language (ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes), as well as the tools beyond the compiler for open source component distribution (cargo, crates.io).
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Using Pony for Fintech
Sylvan Clebsch talks about using Pony for fintech to build high-performance tools. Pony is a new actor-model statically typed language, compiled AOT, with a GC and a data-race free type system.
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Build Arduino Apps Like a Pro with the Arduino C++ IDE for Eclipse
Doug Schaefer overviews the Arduino C++ IDE for Eclipse and discusses plans to take the IDE beyond just Arduino and into other microcontroller boards such as the ESP8266 IoT platform.
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Rust: Unlocking Systems Programming
Aaron Turon explains Rust's core notion of “ownership” and shows how Rust uses it to guarantee thread safety, how Rust avoids some of the pitfalls of C++ without compromising on performance.
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Have Native Languages Returned? (TL;DR: Yes)
In this panel users of C++, Rust, and Go talk about how they picked their language of choice, what problems remain, what was impossible to do with VM-based languages and much more.