Onward! 2022
2022-12-08..2022-12-10
Auckland, New Zealand
Onward! ·
[Onward! 2020, Onward! 2021, Onward! 2022, Onward! 2023, Onward! 2024, Onward! 2025]
who it's for
programming language researchers, software architects, developer tooling engineers, configuration engineers, interactive systems researchers, academic researchers, conference organisers
topics
repairable Smalltalk implementations; JavaScript and 3js prototypes; self-editing user interfaces; color-preview local notation; VM plugin rendering tradeoffs; shipping JavaScript modules; machine-readable config metadata; doxygen-based config extraction; Apache options bleed debugging; text-diagram one-to-one sync
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Relentless Repairability or Reckless Reuse: Whether or Not to Rebuild a Concern with ... | Marcel Taeumel, Robert Hirschfeld | 35m |
Argues that rebuilding wins when you need liveness, debuggability and teachable code and gives concrete cases: a reimplemented Smalltalk font parser that lets… | ||
| Ascending the Ladder to Self-Sustainability: Achieving Open Evolution in an Interactive... | Georgia kubovic, Thomas petricek | 43m |
Shows a working BootstrapLab prototype built in the browser using JavaScript, 3js and the developer tools, where program state lives as masp dictionaries and a… | ||
| Conferences & Ostranenie: Shortchanging Topos and Ourselves | Richard P. Gabriel | 38m |
This essay argues that conferences should prioritize creating environments that foster the initial intuitive leap that produces research hypotheses. It… | ||
| Bringing Together Configuration Research: Towards a Common Ground | Mary Shaw | 42m |
Shows a concrete failure mode: running MegaHit with defaults yields contig counts 284, 285, 285, 289 because kmax is silently reset to 119, documentation lists… | ||
| What Object-Oriented Programming Was Supposed to Be: Two Grumpy Old Guys’ Take on ... | Diego Miller Peterson | 38m |
Argues that mainstream OO has traded away modeling for reuse, citing Simula’s modeling roots and Beta’s features as alternatives; shows concrete problems like… | ||
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