No Content, No Fuss: Melange hits the euro-spotlight

Melange hits the euro-spotlight

anil@recoil.org (Anil Madhavapeddy) — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:12:00 +0100

It's been a busy old March (release management of the new XenEnterprise sucked up most of it). I did take a break and go over to EuroSys 2007 in Portugal to present the language and compiler I implemented as part of my PhD work (read it here).

Although the talk I gave was was a bit underwhelming (more preparation and time-practise next time!), I met a whole bunch of really interesting people. My argument about rewriting whole applications also didn't get laughed out the room as I thought it might, as people recognise that retro-fitting safety enhancements on existing languages is a bit of a dead-end road to go down. It has definitely inspired me to make more time to spend on polishing up the Melange applications for a proper release in 2007.

In a pleasant surprise, it also won the Best Student Paper award of the conference as well!

"Melange hits the euro-spotlight" by Anil

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:14:55 +0100

Exactly! And getting trac to stay up for more than a week on OpenBSD without going into a nose dive seems to require some kind of a miracle... :)

"Melange hits the euro-spotlight" by Alastair Tse

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:53:16 +0100

Nice work! Now if the Melange website didn't give a 500 Internal Server Error ;) I guess it is the argument of your paper on why we should all be using type safe languages?