From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pjotr Prins Subject: FOSDEM 2019 - dev-room proposal Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 11:23:19 +0200 Message-ID: <20180827092319.ghxmbxb2mkjv2sat@thebird.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38641) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuDtl-0007wC-Hs for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 05:33:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuDk1-0004yH-Kn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 05:23:24 -0400 Received: from mail.thebird.nl ([94.142.245.5]:56368) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fuDk1-0004xu-Dk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2018 05:23:21 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org * Minimalistic Languages Every year FOSDEM allows for dev-rooms that need to appeal to a wider audience and do not overlap with other dev-rooms. Programming languages are popular and some of the large languages get their own, such as Python and Rust. See the devrooms section on https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/ Manolis and I want to submit a plan for 'Minimalistic Languages - for big ideas' dev-room. Good examples that fit the room are - mes and reproducible builds - Guile and Guix - Guile JIT - Lua JIT - Lua for scriptable projects (example?) Anyone anything to add to this list? More ideas is better. Other languages that could fit are Forth, Smalltalk, Tcl, Rebol. Provided they have a big idea. Note that JVM languages and languages that compile to Javascript do not fit the room. They probably have their own dev-rooms anyway. Haskell and other Lisps may fit too (if they don't get their own room). We think with enough good projects our dev-room will be of interest. Pj & Manolis