From deep into the Nice mountains, Stéphane works for Red Hat on the Ceylon project.

Passionate hacker in Java, C, Perl or Scheme. A web standards and database enthusiast, he implemented among other things a WYSIWYG XML editor, a multi-threading library in C, a mobile-agent language in Scheme (compiler and virtual machines), and some Web 2.0 RESTful services and rich web interfaces with JavaScript and HTML 5.

Eager to share, he is a frequent speaker at various conferences such as the Scheme Workshop 2004, Nice University in 2008-2009, many Java User Groups as well as the Riviera Java User Group he founded with Nicolas Leroux. A long-time open-source user and advocate, he is committer on RESTEasy, author of jax-doclets, stamps.js and various Play! Framework modules, and developper on various Ceylon projects for Red Hat.

LOCATION: Bern
KEYWORDS: Technology

SPEAKER: Stéphane Épardaud   COMPANY: Red Hat
SLIDES: 130226-jug-ch-intro-to-ceylon.pdf

Ceylon is a new programming language designed to execute on the JVM . org/ We're fans of Java and its ecosystem. However, we think that the language and class libraries, designed more than 15 years ago, are no longer the best foundation for a range of today's business computing problems.

Ceylon's design goals include:

• easy to learn and understand for Java and C# developers,
• eliminate some of Java's verbosity, but keep its readability,
• improve upon Java's typesafety,
• provide a declarative syntax for expressing hierarchical information (user interface, external data, system configuration)
• support and encourage a more functional style of programming with immutable objects and higher-order functions,
• great support for meta-programming,
• built-in modularity.

Come and join us for this introduction to Ceylon where we will show you its main features as well as the ongoing progress of the compiler, IDE, tools and the community behind it.

LANGUAGE: Talk: en / Slides: en

From deep into the Nice mountains, Stéphane works for Red Hat on the Ceylon project.

Passionate hacker in Java, C, Perl or Scheme. A web standards and database enthusiast, he implemented among other things a WYSIWYG XML editor, a multi-threading library in C, a mobile-agent language in Scheme (compiler and virtual machines), and some Web 2.0 RESTful services and rich web interfaces with JavaScript and HTML 5.

Eager to share, he is a frequent speaker at various conferences such as the Scheme Workshop 2004, Nice University in 2008-2009, many Java User Groups as well as the Riviera Java User Group he founded with Nicolas Leroux. A long-time open-source user and advocate, he is committer on RESTEasy, author of jax-doclets, stamps.js and various Play! Framework modules, and developper on various Ceylon projects for Red Hat.

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