Dart provides experience with an optionally typed language used in a demanding industrial setting. I’ll discuss our experiences with Dart’s version of optional/gradual typing and what design insights one might gain from them.
Gilad Bracha is the creator of the Newspeak programming language and a software engineer at Google where he works on Dart. Previously, he was a VP at SAP Labs, a Distinguished Engineer at Cadence, and a Computational Theologist and Distinguished Engineer at Sun. He is co-author of the Java Language Specification, and a researcher in the area of object-oriented programming languages. Prior to joining Sun, he worked on Strongtalk, the Animorphic Smalltalk System. He received his B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben Gurion University in Israel and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah.
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10:05 - 12:25 | |||
10:05 50mTalk | Optional Typing in Dart: Purity and Practice STOP Gilad Bracha Google Pre-print | ||
10:55 30m | Beyond Types: Extending the Gradual Guarantee STOP James Noble Victoria University of Wellington, Michael Homer Victoria University of Wellington, Timothy Jones Victoria University of Wellington, Sophia Drossopoulou Imperial College London, Andrew Black Portland State University, Kim Bruce Pomona College Link to publication | ||
11:25 30m | Gradual Typing for Delimited Continuations STOP Link to publication | ||
11:55 30mTalk | Automating Gradual Typing STOP Timothy Jones Victoria University of Wellington Link to publication File Attached | ||
