As new problems in computing arise, new languages are being created to help tackle those problems. We want to bring together programming language creators, researchers, and enthusiasts to share goals, experiences, and challenges. Our goal is to advance the state of the art in programming language design and implementation.
We are holding the first-ever Emerging Languages Camp Wednesday, July 21st and Thursday, July 22nd at OSCON. This is a free event. Both days will be a series of talks from the language creators. We will start each morning after the OSCON keynotes at 10:30AM. You can track our progress at http://emerginglangs.com.
Alex Payne (Twitter, Programing Scala author) and Brady Forrest (O’Reilly/Ignite) are the co-organizers. You can contact us at emerginglangs@gmail.com. We look forward to answering any questions you may have. The camp is available to all OSCON attendees while seats are available.
We are inviting the creators and maintainers of a number of relatively young programming languages, for starters. If there is anyone that you feel should attend, please let us know. Here is the current list attending language creators:
Melvin Smith – COLA
Phillip Mercurio – Thyrd
Luke Hoban – F#
Tav – PyPy
Rich Hickey – Clojure
Christopher Bertels – Fancy
Jonathan Edwards – Coherence/Subtext
Alex Eagle – Noop
Slava Pestov – Factor
Erik Meijer – C#
Wolfgang De Meuter & Tom Van Cutsem – Ambienttalk
Steve Folta – Trylon
Dan Bornstein – Dalvik
Carson Gross – Gosu
Alexander Fritze – Stratified JavaScript
Rob Pike and Robert Griesemer – Go
Steve Dekorte – Io
Charles Nutter – Duby
Matt MacLaurin – Kodu
Gilad Bracha – Newspeak
Jeremy Ashkenas – CoffeeScript
Adam Chlipala – Ur
Francisco Tolmasky – Objective-J
Jonathan Shapiro – BitC
Mark S Miller – E, Caja
Brian Rice – Slate
Walter Bright – D