Mads Torgersen
Mads is the Program Manager for the C# Language at Microsoft, where he runs the C# design meetings and maintains the language specification. He has been one of the lead architects behind recent C# language features such as async and dynamic, and is on the design teams for Visual Basic and TypeScript. Before joining Microsoft in 2005 Mads worked as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Aarhus and was part of the group that developed wildcards for Java generics.
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Async in C# 5.0 - No More Callbacks!
Friday 13.00 - 13.50 in: Double Rainbow
For modern connected apps, asynchronous programming is necessary to ensure responsiveness of devices and scalability of services. However, asynchronous programming tends to be a teeth-grinding quagmire of dynamically wired-up callbacks, busting any attempt at well-structured code and practically ensuring bugs and poor error handling. C# 5.0 changes all that. The new 'async' language feature along with futures/promises-based APIs bring back the good old imperative experience. Come see how!
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TypeScript: JavaScript development at Scale
Thursday 16.45 - 17.35 in: Gangnam Style
TypeScript is a new programming language aiming to improve the development experience of writing and maintaining application-scale JavaScript programs. TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, adding optional static typing to improve the tooling experience, as well as EcmaScript 6 style classes and modules to help organize large programs. The TypeScript compiler is open source and translates to plain JavaScript that runs in any browser on any platform.
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