since my last post. here I’m back for another attempt ;)
So today I joined the CommunityOne event. I did not register to JavaOne, too expansive and maybe too java-centric. And some friends and I have been joking about the “CommunityOne being the JavaOne for the poors”… well we were not completely wrong… The schedule was not really attractive and the sessions I attended were pretty boring.
The take-off by Ian Murdock was promising and dynamic (really nice and innovative sketchy slides), but after 30 minutes 5 guys (literally) on stage and got me sleepy.
Then I decided to listen to Charles Nutter on the Road to Babel. It took us through a review of a dozen of langages (out of 200!) running on the JVM: Kawa, Jython, JRuby, Groovy, Javascript, etc then he focused on JRuby developing what the main technical issues are (eval function, strings as byte not char, etc). His next intention was to explain why and how all the language implementers could benefit from reusable features if provided by the JVM itself. Common issues in porting a language could addressed once for all. All of this happening within the Da Vinci Project.
The missing part was the time factor: we headed for lunch with no time line, just a rough estimation of 2 years before a release.
On this afternoon, I took a seat in the Ruby Panel room. Reaaally boring. No material, no real baseline, just a speaker decorating random questions from the audience to the panel. Result, nothing much as “what IDE should I use for ruby?”, “yes, you might have to read some code in place of javadocs”. no kidding?…
Flabbergasted, I stayed on the comfortable couch in the lobby till 6pm. By the way, Thumb up for the organization.
ohh, before I sleep, I’ve started a Twitter feed. I have the feeling the 140-char format could suit me.
