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PHP, Seriously!
Keith Adams examines the strengths that made PHP a dominant language in its niche, highlighting Facebook's attempts at remedying its inconsistencies and misfeatures while maintaining its strengths.
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Dancing with Symmetry to Harness the Power of Complexity: Subjective Programming in Context
The authors introduce a new language paradigm meant to enhance OOP with multi-dimensional context, providing details on context-based dispatch, and showing a glimpse of their early prototype.
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Civilizing Web Programming with Dart
Gilad Bracha presents the motivation behind building Dart, the current state of the Dart platform and where it is heading to.
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The Yin and Yang of Hardware Heterogeneity: Can Software Survive?
Kathryn S. McKinley discusses research approaches and results that abstract, choose, and exploit hardware heterogeneity providing computational power at low energy consumption levels.
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DevOps Patterns to Scale Web Applications using Cloud Services
Daniel Cukier shares insight in using cloud services to scale web applications, dealing with load balancing, session sharing, email, asynchronous processing, logging, monitoring, CD, RUM, etc.
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TypeScript: a Type System for Toolability
Luke Hoban introduces TypeScript and its implications for writing web applications and creating supporting tooling.
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R for Big Data
Indrajit Roy presents HP Labs’ attempts at scaling R to efficiently perform distributed machine learning and graph processing on industrial-scale data sets.
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Go at Google
Rob Pike explains how Google designed Go to address major development issues they encounter while using other languages: long build times, poor dependency management, lack of robustness, etc.
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Formal Specification of a JavaScript Module System
In this paper, we propose a formal specification of a JavaScript module system. A module system for JavaScript will allow safe and incremental development of JavaScript web applications.
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Eval Begone!: Semi-Automated Removal of Eval from JavaScript Programs
Gregor Richards introduces Evalorizer, a heuristics based tool which is meant to replace JavaScript eval constructs with safer JavaScript correspondents.
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Dependent Types for JavaScript
Ravi Chugh introduces Dependent JavaScript (DJS), a statically-typed system for the imperative, object-oriented, dynamic language.
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The HipHop Compiler for PHP
Guilherme Ottoni presents the design, implementation, and an evaluation of the HipHop compiler for PHP.