LLVM Social #11: Symatem - Reinventing Software

This time the talk will be given by Alexander Meißner.
He is a master student in IT-Systems Engineering (computer science) at Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Potsdam, who is especially interested in programming language design, operating systems / kernels and robotics.

Symatem - Reinventing Software

Do you sometimes think that the software development of today is somewhat stuck?

• That the new and trendy programming language X is just a reincarnation of Y painted in different colors?
• That people get lost in discussing code and syntax styles instead of the actual program?
• That there are too many different programming languages and one should be enough (ironically adding yet another one)?
• That you build adapters to compatibility layers to transcoders to translation units all day and wonder where the actual processing happens?
• That a file system and a database are essentially the same?
• That most software is just bloatware, far to chaotic and suffering from feature creep?
• That artificial intelligence might take your job as programmer one day, without writing a single line of source code?

The talk will be about a quite different approach to programming and software in general. "Symatem" is the name of the project which represents a fresh start and aims to be independent of all other software. A discussion about a LLVM frontend and comparison to LLVMs architecture is included. The talk will also dive deeply into abstract thinking and introduce ideas which you might have to wrap your head around first. So bring an open and refreshed mind with you :)