I am working at the School of Computing
at the University of Kent.
My work focuses on programming language implementation techniques
and concurrent and parallel programming.
Currently, I am working on fast dynamic language implementations,
on combining concurrency models in a safe manner,
automatically preventing concurrency issues from manifesting,
and to enable developers to make sense of complex concurrent programs
with appropriate tools.
Following up on my last blog post,
I am going to look at how Ruby is used to get a bit of an impression of whether
there are major differences between Ruby and Smalltalk in their usage.
Recently, I was wondering how large code bases look like when it comes to
the basic properties compiler might care about. And here I am not thinking about
dynamic properties, but simply static properties such as length of methods,
number of methods per class, number of fields, and so on.
I started writing this post when being very very annoyed by this blog post on the SIGPLAN blog.
I could not understand how “THE SIGPLAN” blog
could simply write 30 years of
programming language research out of existence,
only barely acknowledging Self and JavaScript.
It felt like duty called…
Last year, I was asked to give a talk for the Meta’19 workshop.
It’s a workshop on metaprogramming and reflection.
The submission deadline for this year’s edition, is less than a month away: Check it out!
Last September, I had a lot of fun putting together a lecture on
language implementation techniques. It is something I wanted to do for a while,
but I had not had a good excuse before to actually do it.
I am working at the School of Computing
at the University of Kent.
My work focuses on programming language implementation techniques
and concurrent and parallel programming.