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The State of the Art
Richard Astbury demonstrates three new programming languages and discusses how they will affect the future direction of computer programming.
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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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Fast, Parallel, or Reliable: Pick 3, a Tour of Elixir
Jordan Day introduces the Elixir language, its syntax and the semantics of an Elixir application, highlighting differences that make Elixir apps more reliable than those written in other languages.
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Designing C# 7
Lucian Wischik discusses the design process for C# 7, which is being designed in the open, with eager community participation on GitHub and elsewhere, and the language features that are taking shape.
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What Elixir is About
José Valim introduces Elixir and some of the most important features: data types, modules, async, collections, parallelism, streams, etc.
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Catching up with Swift
Ash Furrow discusses Swift, why Swift was needed, the Objective-C problems it addresses, and how ready it is from both technical and business standpoints.
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The Worst Programming Language Ever
Mark Rendle runs an interactive session for defining the worst programming language of all times, including the worst syntax, semantics and runtime.
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The F# Way To Relaxation
Don Syme makes a journey through the modern programming landscape and the F# approach to research, language design, interoperability, tooling and community.
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The Business Cases for Modeling and Generators
Juha-Pekka Tolvanen keynotes on what modeling languages and generators are more helpful and cost effective.
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The Better Parts
Douglas Crockford discusses how to use programming languages more effectively; reviews the good parts in EcmaScript 6 and JSON.
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Evolving Java
Brian Goetz describes the future directions for the Java language, especially changes introduced in Java 8, and details the approach taken for key language evolution choices.
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How to Teach Your Kid to Code with Hopscotch
Samantha John explains the design considerations for creating a visual language for children and demoes Hopscotch, presenting techniques and sample projects for teaching kids to code.
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