Illegal Argument

Lately it seems we've been rather busy to record, so it was good to finally get 2/3's of us together to actually record, and discuss languages from a less argumentative level ( no wild type theory arguments or build rants ) even tho some of those familiar topics arose in passing.

Most of this weeks discussion revolve around a series of videos, or posts that Greg had recently watched:

• Go and Quasar: a comparison of style and performance
• "Evidence-Oriented Programming" by Andreas Stefik — Strange Loop 2015
• "Feet in Both Worlds: From Objective-C to Swift" by Andy Matuschak — Strange Loop 2015
• Wrapping Clojure Tooling in Containers - Mark Mandel — Clojure Conj 2015

Later in the episode we discuss my recent foray into learning/using ANTLR 4 and comparing it to jparsec and parboiled.

So it's been a quiet few months in the build cycle but we thought it was about time to release a new episode, so here - enjoy episode 139 - largely unedited, unprepared, full of ranty goodness.

1. Jigsaw is finally in Java
2. C# is a better language
3. Properties...

• Java 9 Delayed by 6 months
• Jigsaw is a Shibboleth

• Rust Language

  • Rusty Radio Podcast
  • New Rustacean Podcast
  • Rust Screencast Series
• Pure4j

• PSA: PostgreSQL JDBC Driver Bugs

  • Data corruption caused by prepared statement cache
  • fix: fix invalid values when receiving int2, int4, int8 via getBigDecimal()
  • fix: fix invalid values when receiving int2, int4, int8 via getBigDecimal
• Reproducible builds?
• Continuous Delivery and Zero Downtime: what your architecture needs to succeed - Axel Fontaine

• Lambdas and C++ Performance

• JavaZone 2015 Talks

  • JavaZone 2015 on Vimeo
• Code Tools: jmh for micro benchmarks.
• Introduction to JMH
• What is -XX:+UseCompressedOops in 64bit JVM
• JDK 8: UseCompressedClassPointers vs UseCompressedOops
• Java Mission Control ( Flight Recorder )

This “weeks” argument was recorded on the Back to the Future day, and then eventually edited and published a long overdue time later… That’s time travel.

• Garbage Collection in Go
• Java Garbage Collectors
• Adding Rusts Ownership model to Java?

• Java 9 - State of the Java Module System

  • Java 9 and Beyond with Jigsaw and JLink
  • “Layers” for supporting different versions of modules during a JVMs lifespan. Described in the State of The Modules.
  • Ceylon uses JBoss Modules - “ceylon war” generates a war file containing all of your modules.
• maven-dependency-plugin - Dependency Convergence
• SemVer is a fail.

• Emanuele Ziglioli as guest.

• DukeScript

• JavaScript Core

• Netbeans HTML/Java Plugin

• XCode Ghost - Hundreds of apps infected by fake Xcode tools, Apple removing known malicious software from App Store.

• Instances of Non-Capturing Lambdas

• You can’t provide a default hashCode() method from an interface.

• 80% of Haskell packages that use floating point expressions contain numerical instabilities. The Herbie GHC Plugin automatically rewrites these expressions into a numerically stable form.

• Totally…​Gridbag

• Tiling window managers

  • Ratpoison

  • xmonad - Haskell based tiling Window Manager

• Mozilla XUL

• ICFP Talk on UrWeb - An Optimizing Compiler for a Purely Functional Web Application Language.

• IKVM.NET is an implementation of Java for Mono and the Microsoft .NET Framework.

• Capsule - Package and Deploy JVM Applications

• Jetbrains License Subscription

  • Jetbrains Toolbox

  • Jetbrains Lockin: We Told You So

• Build Tool lock-in?

• Java Evangelists being let go?

• AsciidocFX Editor

• JavaOne 2015

• JavaZone 2015

• Project Sumartra: Letting Java Applications use the GPU.

• CMake Build Tool

• BiiCode Dependency Management

• CPP Cast - Podcast About C++

• Google Test

• C++ REPL using CLANG

• Haskforce - Haskell Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

• intellij-erlang

• Functional Java

• Java Slang

• Totally Lazy

• Lambda Days 2015 - Justin Leitgeb - A Year of Haskell

• Fork/Join

• DivideTask.java from Peter.

• Purely Functional DataStructures - PDF book by Chris Okasaki.

• JavaZone 2014 - 6000 minutes of learning

  • Under the Hood of the HotSpot G1 Garbage Collector by Bengt Rutisson.

• Microservices and Node.JS

• Jenkins and the dreaded Maven Plugin

  • Jenkins Docker Plugin

  • Jenkins Build Pipeline Plugin

• Git

  • Case Insensitive .Git directory security hole.

• JDK 8 Adoption Problems

  • Application Services not supporting JDK8 yet

  • ANTLR 3 do not compile under JDK8 - Apache Cassandra bug link.

  • Developers Are Adopting Java 8 In Droves

  • Java 8: Will It See More Rapid Adoption?

  • Java 8 adoption rate higher than expected

  • Survey Results – Java 8, Spring 4 and Spring Boot Adoption

  • Ted Neward on Java 8 adoption

• Java sun.misc.Unsafe

  • Java Magic. Part 4: sun.misc.Unsafe

  • dzone: Understanding sun.misc.Unsafe

  • Dangerous Code: How to be Unsafe with Java Classes & Objects in Memory

  • TRICKS WITH DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS IN JAVA

  • Removal of sun.misc.Unsafe in Java 9 - A disaster in the making

  • JavaWorld: Understanding sun.misc.Unsafe

  • JEP 238: Multi-Release JAR Files

  • What to do about sun.misc.Unsafe? ( Google Doc Discussion Proposal )

  • Java Memory Model Update

• Object Generation

  • Project Lombok

  • Jodabeans, Google Autovalue, Immutables.org,

  • CXF / WSDLs and Generated Code up the Wazzoooooo

  • Java Beans Components

  • Stephen Colebourne on the horrors The JavaBeans specification.

  • Introducing JavaPoet - the successor to JavaWriter from Square, Inc. Java Source generation library.

  • Java Source Parser library.

  • Mark’s new ADT library using JavaPoet and Jparsec.

  • Java Generics vs Kotlin generics - discussion of use-site - http://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/generics.html

  • Java 8 Generics Changes

Join Mark, Greg, and Peter and we wax lyrically about 4k screens, driver issues, how node.js and NPM love /tmp and somehow.... just somehow - fail to rant about types or build for a change...