Ceylon From Here to Infinity: The Big Picture and What's Coming

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== Abstract ==

Ceylon is a new modern, elegant programming language for the JVM and JavaScript VM, designed for team work. But it's more than that, it is a full platform with modularity, an SDK, tools and IDEs.

We will present Ceylon the language, the platform, and its ecosystem. You will see everything from starting a new project in the IDE to publishing it on Herd, our module repository, including using the SDK. We will also discuss the ongoing Ceylon projects such as the build system, Vert.x integration or Cayla, the new web framework.

Finally we will discuss the plans for Ceylon 1.2 and further.

= Stéphane Épardaud

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, Nice University, Devoxx, JavaOne, JavaZone, JAX, many Java User Groups as well as the Riviera Java User Group he co-leads. A long-time open-source user and advocate, he worked on RESTEasy, jax-doclets, stamps.js and various Play! Framework modules.

He now works full time on various Ceylon projects for Red Hat, including the JVM compiler backend, various SDK modules, the Herd module repository and in general making sure all these parts work together.

= Tom Bentley

Tom has been working on Ceylon for the past 3 years. He focusses mainly on code generation for the JVM and has implemented compiler support for higher order functions, mixins, constructors, serialization and annotations, amongst other sins. He's also had a hand in some of the other tools in the distribution. He helps maintain ceylon.language and was the original author of ceylon.math, ceylon.test and ceylon.unicode.

In previous lives Tom has worked in public and private sectors on systems large and small, mostly in Java (but also a little JavaScript, Python and C).

Tom lives in Northumberland.