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Groovy AST Transformations
Paul King reviews some of the most useful of the Groovy built-in AST transformations. He talks about the internal workings of AST transformations and how to write your own.
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From Source to Bytecode: Deep Dive into the Groovy Compiler
Cédric Champeau explores the Groovy compiler. He discusses parsing, abstract syntax tree, type checking, type inference, bytecode and verifier.
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Relevance of ClojureScript
Jearvon Dharrie discusses how ClojureScript stacks up against ES6. He demonstrates code examples in JavaScript and ClojureScript.
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Compile-time Computations in C++14
Peter Sommerlad covers compile-time computations available in C++14: constexpr functions and constants, literal types, variable templates, variadic templates and what can be expected in the future.
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Large-scale Scientific C++ For Casual Coders: Why You (Should) Care
Axel Naumann introduces the use of C++ for storing and analyzing petabytes of C++ objects at CERN, and more generally in High Energy Physics.
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An Introduction to Clojure and ClojureScript
David Tanzer introduces Clojure and ClojureScript, discussing the language basics and some libraries useful for writing real applications.
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Priming Java for Speed at Market Open
Gil Tene provides an overview of JIT compiler optimization techniques and their impact on common market-open slowdown scenarios.
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Typesafe Scala, Typelevel Scala – What’s Going On, Anyway?
The panelists discuss the Scala compiler fork (typelevel.org): Is this a positive and natural outgrowth of a growing language or will this development cause irreparable rifts in the Scala community?
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Codan - a Code Analysis Framework for CDT
Elena Laskavaia explains how to write a simple C/C++ checker to find errors in code with Code Analysis Framework (codan) and the AST introspection APIs of the CDT.
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Writing AST Transformations - Get Practical in 90 minutes
Baruch Sadogursky and Fred Simon explain how to write AST transformations.
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Finding Minimum Type Error Sources
The presenters discuss a framework for automatic localization of minimum type errors, demonstratively implemented for Hindley-Milner type systems and evaluated against OCaml benchmarks.
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Write Your Own Compiler in 24 Hours
Phillip Trelford explains how compilers work with live code samples, primarily in F# and C#, covering language design and parsing, all-the-way through to emitting code.