Primitives in Generics workshop in Bulgarian JUG

[Mani Sarkar]

Good one Ivan - keep us informed of JUG activities always a pleasure.

Cheers,
Mani

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>



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