JVM Language Whirlwind Tour

The JVM is the best platform for languages right now - and there are many languages that run on the JVM. Several cover the same kind of space but there are also many interesting outliers.

This presentation will give a whirlwind tour of several interesting languages and take a look at JSR 292, the JSR for adding new language support to Java and how these languages can be used for different purposes.


Ola Bini

About Ola Bini

Ola Bini works as a language geek for ThoughtWorks in Chicago. He is from Sweden but don't hold that against him. He is one of the JRuby core developers and have been involved in JRuby development since 2006. At one point in time, Ola got tired of all existing programming languages and decided to create his own, called Ioke. He has written a book called Practical JRuby on Rails Projects for APress, talked at numerous conferences, and contributed to a large number of open source projects.

His main passion lies in implementation languages, working on regular expression engines, trying to figure out how to create good YAML parsers.

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