Primitives in Generics workshop in Bulgarian JUG

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Ivan,

Great stuff! I've updated the Valhalla page, should be going up soon - I'll
add your link to it!

Cheers,
Martijn

On Friday, 30 January 2015, Ivan St. Ivanov <ivan.st.ivanov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>


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Cheers,
Martijn