Primitives in Generics workshop in Bulgarian JUG

[Ivan St. Ivanov]

Hello adopters,

As promised, we had our Valhalla introduction workshop in the Bulgarian
Java User Group.

We started with a brief introduction of the state of generics, reasons for
non-supporting primitives so far, reasons for erasure, proposed approach
for implementing generics over primitives (and later over value types as
well), some implications, etc. The slides are available here:

http://www.slideshare.net/IvanIvanov138/primitives-in-generics-from-project-valhala

Then we continued with writing some code, trying out various aspects of the
valhalla project (we had already prepared virtual machine with the valhalla
source code). Our member Mihail wrote a report on his blog with some useful
links:

http://mihail.stoynov.com/2015/01/29/bgjug-valhalla-hackaton-29-01-2015/

We had some interesting findings (checkout the above blog), which I will
discuss with some more knowledgeable people at FOSDEM before reporting them
to the Valhalla ML.

Cheers,
Ivan