(5249) A quick guide to modern languages and interesting concepts for the busy Java programmer

Technical long talk 50 min

Thursday, 2008-06-26, 14:00 - 14:50, Arena 7

Cédric Beust - Google (speaker)

Topics

• Java Development Kit & Runtime Environment and its development
• Scripting

Abstract

A lot of new languages have emerged to challenge Java these past years: Ruby, 
Scala, Groovy, Erlang, etc... Can Java survive? In this presentation, I will do 
a quick analysis of these various languages and explain why, despite its old 
age, Java is in the best position to face the challenges that await software 
developers for the next decade. I will cover topics such as dynamic and duck 
typing, functional programming, concurrency, distribution and much more.