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Mapping Etsy's Front-end
Daniel Espeset talks about how Etsy built an incremental compiler for the JavaScript modules, and used it to see how static assets are compiled, being deployed, and loaded.
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Duetto: C++ as the Platform Language for the Web
Alessandro Pignotti introduces Duetto, a C++ compiler that enables developers to write full client-server Web applications in standard C++ and to port existing C++ codebases to the Web.
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Building Real-time Web Applications with Stratified JavaScript
Alexander Fritze shows how to build real-time web app with Conductance, a web app server built on Stratified JavaScript which includes support for modularity and composability of asynchronous code.
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Project Avatar
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Oracle, David Delabassee discusses creating hybrid apps with Avatar, a platform for server-side development in JavaScript for the JVM.
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Hastily Paving the Way for Diversity
Anton Ekblad discusses the Haste Haskell-to-JavaScript compiler, how well JavaScript does as a target language, and how JavaScript could play better with FP compilers.
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Full Stack JavaScript
Grant Shipley demos using JavaScript and Node.js to develop an iOS and Android application using MongoDB as backend.
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JavaScript API Design Principles
Ariya Hidayat discusses principles for designing JavaScript APIs by observing the interactions between modules, particularly the influence of an interface on the code patterns.
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JS Optimization Techniques
Guillaume Lathoud suggests expanding JavaScript with mutual tail-call optimization, map/filter/reduce and math computations to obtain faster code.
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JIT Compilation Techniques
Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert introduces adaptive compilation strategies aiming to fulfill the seemingly conflicting goals of producing more optimal machine code while reducing compilation time.
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Node.JS: The Good Parts? A Skeptic’s View
Chris Richardson discusses creating Node.JS polyglot applications starting from combining an event-driven programming model with a prototype-based, weakly typed, dynamic language.
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How JavaScript Objects are Implemented
Eddy Bruel details how objects are implemented internally in SpiderMonkey as shape trees and slot vectors to minimize the memory footprint and obtain better JIT optimization with inline caching.
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Building Web Apps with Ember.js
Jesse Cravens demoes setting up client-side models with various persistence solutions using data bindings, and showing how Ember’s router manages application state.