SPLASH 2011: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt - JavaScript Modules
- Posted: Nov 22, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- 48,536 Views
- 3 Comments
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt is an associate professor at Northeastern University. Sam focuses on a variety of programming language research projects including Racket (and Typed Racket), Fortress, and JavaScript—the focus of this conversation.
Sam is collaborating with Mozilla Research and the ECMA TC39 standards committee, helping to evolve JavaScript. One of the areas that he's been driving for the next version of EcmaScript (aka JavaScript...), known as Harmony, is JavaScript Modules.
What are JavaScript Modules? Why are they necessary? What's the idea? How do they work? What's next?
Tune in. Thanks for joining us on Channel 9, Sam!
Recently, Channel 9 was invited to attend the great SPLASH conference. What is SPLASH? Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity. A big thanks to the SPLASH event organizers for inviting me and my camera to engage some key computer scientists and engineers in geeky, fun conversation! SPLASH is a great event! I learned a ton and met many amazing computer scientists and students.
SPLASH is an annual conference that embraces all aspects of software construction and delivery, and that joins all factions of programming technologies. Since 2010 SPLASH is the umbrella for OOPSLA and Onward! [source=splashcon.org]
Comments Closed
Comments have been closed since this content was published more than 30 days ago, but if you'd like to continue the conversation,
please create a new thread in our Forums,
or
Contact Us and let us know.
More posts in this blog
-
SPLASH 2011: William Cook - Objects, Orc, Hybrid…
-
SPLASH 2011: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt - JavaScript…
-
SPLASH 2011: Kresten Thorup - Erlang, Erjang, and…
Follow the Discussion
Oops, something didn't work.
What does this mean?
Following an item on Channel 9 allows you to watch for new content and comments that you are interested in. You need to be signed in to Channel 9 to use this feature.What does this mean?
Following an item on Channel 9 allows you to watch for new content and comments that you are interested in and view them all on your notifications page.sign up for email notifications?
Downloaded!
Nice interview; it's a pity that it's so short. He has done some very interesting research on typed scheme and contracts. I hope we'll see some of those results appear in future versions of Javascript.
@Jules.dot: We only had a small amount of time between sessions. This is why we only talk about JS Modules and not his other research projects. I hope to interview him again at another exceptional event.
C
Remove this comment
Remove this thread
close