Speaker: Ted Neward
Twitter: @tednewarrd
For more, see the table of contents.
General
- Covering 10 next gen languages
- The languages we use here are old enough to drink
- However, the world has changed. Problems have changed
- We got lazy and added features to general purpose programming languages
- “How many of you like abstractFactory.impl.impl”
- If don’t know all features of your chosen language, maybe it is too complicated
- Excel is world’s most popular functional programming language. If you change a cell, everything in the dependency tree changes.
Crystal
- crystal-lang.org
- Online playground – https://play.crystal-lang.org/#/cr
- native complication via LLVM (low level virtual machine) toolchain
- interoperates with other LLVM based platforms ex: GraalVM)
- heavily inspired by Ruby but has performance of native
- created specifically to tap into AI
- statically type checked/type inferenced
- non-nillable types (compile time nil checks)
- macro metaprogramming system
- creates an executable
Julia
- julialang.org
- interactive shell: https://julialang.org/learning/tryjulia/
- decently known in R/math/science community
- compiled (via LLVM)
- direct support for complex and rational numbers
- OO and functional via multiple dispatch
- dynamically typed
- parallel/async/multithreaded
- metaprogrammming (code is data; data is code) – ex: Math.parse (“1 + 1”)
- good candidate for parallelizable math
- can call from C
IO
- iolanguage.org
- IO for Graal
- Development has ceased. Original creator proved his point. Others set it up on top of other languages which are active. Ex: IO for Java
- homoiconic language – all values are objects; everything is a message
- no keywords
- will hurt brain until it clicks
Flix
- flix.dev
- functional first imperative logic language
- runs on JVM
- algebraic data types and pattern matching
- Java took these features
- easy to mix pure and impure code (re side effects)
- First class Datalog contraints (based on Prolog) – rules and rules chaining
Pony
- ponylang.io
- statically typed, OO
- uses actor model
- capabilities secure: type, memory, exception, no deadlocks, no data race
- high performance
- philosophy: get stuff done
- guarantees if compiles, won’t crash, etc
My take
Good high level overview of many things. Good to see code examples for each as well. Also interesting that he presented out of HTML and Dropbox. It worked well. I left when there were 10 minutes left (and 5 languages left) because my session is right after this. It was hard to leave, the session was excellent.