Tech Mesh London 2012

Presentation: "ClojureScript: The Essence of Alchemy"

Track: Language Track / Time: Tuesday 13:25 - 14:15 / Location: Virginia Woolf's

It is no longer possible to ignore the reach of JavaScript. Thanks to the web, JavaScript is one of the most widely distributed programming languages. Thanks to intense coporate competition between Google, Apple, and Mozilla, JavaScript engines are some of the fastest runtimes available. Yet JavaScript has many well known (and not so well known) shortcomings. This talk will discuss how JavaScript strengths can be leveraged and its costs mitigated via transpilation using ClojureScript as a specific example.

Talk objectives: JavaScript is an excellent and improving target for functional programming languages. This talk will illustrate why and how.

Target audience: Anyone interested in web and mobile technologies.

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David Nolen, NYTimes Software Engineer

David Nolen

Biography: David Nolen

David Nolen is a curious programmer, musician, and teacher living in Brooklyn. He currently writes JavaScript and Ruby for The New York Times. He also helps run the affordable Kitchen Table Coders workshops from a Brooklyn studio. In his free time he contributes to several open source Clojure projects including core.match, core.logic and ClojureScript.