Sven Efftinge works for itemis and leads an open-source development lab in Kiel, Germany.
He is a passionate software developer, interested in everything which helps developing and maintaining good software systems. Sven is the project lead of Xtend, a programming language which compiles into Java source code, and Xtext, a framework for development of domain-specific languages.

LOCATION: Zürich
KEYWORDS: Methods, Product, Technology, Tools

SPEAKER: Sven Efftinge   COMPANY: itemis Schweiz GmbH

Xtend is a programming language developed at Eclipse.org which compiles into readable Java source code. It reuses Java's keywords, terminology and concepts as much as possible, but abandons the dead freight at the same time.

Xtend is a powerful alternative for implementing Java classes and works great with all the existing libraries, such as JavaFX, GWT, or Android. Since the language can be seen as a little complementary add-on to Java, it offers many modern language features that you are currently missing in your daily work. Xtend comes with a variety of goodies reaching from type inference over closures and extension methods up to smart string interpolation that make development great fun, again. And of course there is powerful Eclipse IDE integration available. In this session I will demonstrate why Xtend is so great for everyday programming. You will get an in-depth impression of the seamless integration with the Eclipse Java IDE and you'll learn about Xtend's expressiveness and conciseness.

LEVEL OF TALK: Intermediate
LANGUAGE: Talk: de / Slides: en

Sven Efftinge works for itemis and leads an open-source development lab in Kiel, Germany.
He is a passionate software developer, interested in everything which helps developing and maintaining good software systems. Sven is the project lead of Xtend, a programming language which compiles into Java source code, and Xtext, a framework for development of domain-specific languages.

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