Posts tagged "DSL"

Building a programming language on GraalVM (Part 1)

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Building a programming language on GraalVM (Part 1)

If you’ve followed recent developments in the Java ecosystem, you must know GraalVM. Many blog posts cover how you can build native executables from Java source code. This is indeed exciting: your program starts faster, and consumes less memory. Other popular topics include building Java applications that run code in other languages. You can run JavaScript, Python, Ruby or R code in the JVM. But there’s more: in fact you can run any language inside the JVM! Are you curious how? Continue reading…

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Impressions of the first JVMCON

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Last Tuesday was the first edition of JVMCON. This conference has a special programme committee: its audience. When the Call for Papers closed, everyone who had a ticket could see the submitted papers. Only, they could not see who submitted the paper - which let them focus on the papers themselves. Out of almost 180 papers, they had to select 13…

And guess what: one of them was mine! I presented my talk for the early birds, and there were quite a lot of them! The room was pretty much packed, and there was a lot of questions and remarks afterwards. That surprised me a bit, since I usually do not experience a lot of interaction with the audience.

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