Extending your Rails app with some Go, Scala, Elixir or node.js sound interesting to you? The first challenge to get there is to safely share the session between your apps. Crypto is hard… but that won't prevent us from looking into how Rails sessions work and how to share them across programming languages.
j2me.js is a Java VM written in pure JavaScript that is geared towards modern Web-enabled mobile devices such as Firefox OS. Its designed to run Java/MIDP games and apps in an HTML5 environment, enabling old feature phone content to live on in the modern smartphone world. My talk will in focus in particular on mapping the more complex language features of the Java VM onto JavaScript and HTML5, including multithreading and synchronous I/O.
I’ll explain how React is moving towards a minimal API surface area. Instead of providing many framework features, React is trying to utilize patterns, paradigms and JavaScript language features to accomplish the same tasks that other frameworks have dedicated APIs for. Not all environments have these natively. We need to polyfill new an experimental features. How can we safely do that? Is it better to have a non-standard library?
