JavaScript is Everywhere? Cool, let's try to level up programming.

Dear jQuery plugin writer, say hello to three of my friends: abstraction, actors and functional programming.

Talk given at http://jsconf.co. Notes and more details about the talk can be found here: http://mheroin.com/jsconf/. Typography and colors were borrowed from Zach Holman's "If I Only Knew This Shit in College" (http://zachholman.com/talk/if-only-i-knew-this-shit-in-college/)

Transcript

1. JAVASCRIPT IS EVERYWHERE? COOL, LET’S LEVEL UP PROGRAMMING FEDERICO BUILES @FEBUILES
3. MOTIVATION
4. Our capacity to create new things is limited by what our computers can do.
5. What our computers can do is [only] limited by what we can tell them to do
6. What we can tell them to do is limited by... us?
7. bar charts, our effort vs. computer
9. This protocol is what allows us to express ideas to the computer
10. One part of this protocol are programming languages
12. Having a better protocol allows us to create greater things
13. JAVASCRIPT
14. JAVASCRIPT IS EVERYWHERE
15. JAVASCRIPT IS EVERYWHERE BROWSER
16. JAVASCRIPT IS EVERYWHERE SERVERS
17. JAVASCRIPT IS EVERYWHERE EDUCATION
18. JAVASCRIPT IS EVERYWHERE ELECTRONICS
19. EVERYWHERE IS JAVASCRIPT 0_0
20. TOMORROW’S LANGUAGES ARE DIRECTLY INFLUENCED BY THE LANGUAGES WE USE TODAY
21. Mandatory cliché quote: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay
22. JavaScript is a mainstream language and it’ll affect the future of programming
23. JavaScript is a mainstream language and it’ll affect the future of programming Let’s try to improve a bit.
24. 3ABSTRACTION ACTORS FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING
25. ACTORS FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING 1ABSTRACTION
26. [1] We Really Don’t Know How to Compute http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-To-Compute [2] Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
27. ABSTRACTION ACTORS FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING 2
28. “According to Carl Hewitt, unlike previous models of computation, the Actor model was inspired by physics including general relativity and quantum mechanics.” Wikipedia
29. ACTOR SEND MESSAGES SPAWN ACTORS PREPARE FOR NEXT MESSAGE
30. SEND MESSAGES SPAWN ACTORS PREPARE FOR NEXT MESSAGE ACTOR
31. SEND MESSAGES SPAWN ACTORS PREPARE FOR NEXT MESSAGE ACTOR
32. SEND MESSAGES SPAWN ACTORS PREPARE FOR NEXT MESSAGE ACTOR
33. ACTOR SEND MESSAGES CREATE ACTORS PREPARE FOR NEXT MESSAGE CONCURRENTLY
34. “This will take a while. I better spawn 10k agents and let the others know about them”
35. “This will take a while. I better spawn 10k agents and let the others know about them” SEND MESSAGES CREATE ACTORS PREPARE FOR NEXT MESSAGE
36. “This will take a while. I better spawn 10k agents and let the others know about them” SEND MESSAGES CREATE ACTORS PREPARE FOR NEXT MESSAGE
37. “This will take a while. I better spawn 10k agents and let the others know about them” SEND MESSAGES CREATE ACTORS PREPARE FOR NEXT MESSAGE
38. THE ACTOR DOES NOT KNOW WHO THE SENDER OF A MESSAGE WAS
39. NOW YOU’RE FORCED INTO ASYNC. THE ACTOR DOES NOT KNOW WHO THE SENDER OF A MESSAGE WAS
40. ACTOR IDENTIFIED BY AN ADDRESS
42. [1] A Universal Modular ACTOR Formalism for Artificial Intelligence http://worrydream.com/refs/Hewitt-ActorModel.pdf [2] The Future of Programming http://worrydream.com/dbx/ [3] Erlang & Scala
43. ABSTRACTION ACTORS FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING 3
47. ; ;
59. MAP/REDUCE
60. MAP/REDUCE HADOOP
61. MAP/REDUCE HADOOP BIG DATA!
62. [1] Why Functional Programming Matters http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.pdf [2] Functional JavaScript http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028857.do [3] Underscore.js http://underscorejs.org/
63. "Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement." Ex-Microsoft Employee ca. 2005
64. http://mheroin.com/jsconf federico@mheroin.com @febuiles