This morning’s keynote, Concurrency: Past and Present, was given by Brian Goetz. The talk was a general overview of why concurrency is so hard and what may be coming in the future to solve the problems. Both Intel and Sun (probably others) are looking at hardware solutions. Java and .Net are also looking at software solutions. Unfortunately I had to step out of the talk and didn’t hear the last few minutes.
Today was the official start of CodeMash with the panel last night as a day zero type event. I’ve already blogged about the morning keynote, so I’ll just skip that and move on the rest of the day.
The first session I missed out on as I was in the Expert’s Zone. Bill Wagner and I (ok, so mostly Bill) spoke to a few guys about a system they were working on.
This morning Neal Ford gave the first keynote of CodeMash. His talk was Software “Engineering” & Polyglot Programming. The talk was excellent. Here are the quick bullet points that I took away from the talk:
Focus on the platform and use the languages that work with that platform that make sense. For example, if you choose .Net as your platform you can choose from VB.Net, C#, Iron Python, F#, etc. You may find that F# fits your needs for a particular problem, but C# fits better for others.