Richard Feldman — Native Desktop Apps in Roc

Roc is a bleeding-edge functional programming language built for user-friendliness and performance. Although the language is not ready for production use yet, it has some exciting proof-of-concept capabilities already, most recently including cross-platform native desktop applications. This talk demonstrates how to create native desktop applications in Roc, which compile to optimized binary executables that render straight to the graphics card; there's no virtual machine, shrink-wrapped browser, or giant C/C++ framework under the hood here! __________________________________________________ About Richard Feldman Richard is the creator of the Roc programming language, the host of the Software Unscripted podcast, and the author of Elm in Action from Manning Publications. He teaches online courses on Frontend Masters: Introduction to Rust, Introduction to Elm, and Advanced Elm. Outside of programming, he's a fan of strategy games, heavy metal, powerlifting, and puns! __________________________________________________ About the Conference The Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (ETE) is the Mid-Atlantic's premier developer's conference: we bring world-renowned speakers, plus some local favorites to speak about bleeding-edge technologies being used today. Our talks are delivered by down-in-the-dirt engineers; high-level, big-picture folks like CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, SVPs; and architects. Our speakers are the founders of companies you know and love, and you'll learn new technologies from the people who created them: the core committers, pioneers, and leading trainers and authors. __________________________________________________ About the Host Philly ETE is hosted by Chariot Solutions, a software development consultancy. For over 20 years, companies of all sizes and industries have looked to Chariot as a partner to help them solve their toughest software challenges, and move their business forward. Visit us at https://chariotsolutions.com/ We're hiring! Our people make us great, so we make them our priority. For 100% benefits for you and your family, a significant investment in your professional development, and an emphasis on work-life balance, consider working for Chariot. Visit our careers page for open positions, interview process, benefits, and more. https://chariotsolutions.com/careers/... __________________________________________________ Our Sponsors Comcast. Every day we make an impact through innovation. We drive for simplicity. We are problem solvers at heart. We tap into the diversity of our team for ideas and differing perspective. All in the pursuit of building cutting-edge products that are easy to use and accessible across all platforms. Work for Comcast: https://jobs.comcast.com/ Honeycomb.io. Honeycomb is the observability tool that helps modern development teams understand the systems they build and operate in production. Develop better instrumentation as you write code to reduce toil and delight your users. With Honeycomb, guess less and know more. Learn more: https://www.honeycomb.io/ Elsevier. Every day, research and health professionals dedicate themselves to improving outcomes for communities, patients and society at large. Elsevier is committed to quality and innovation to improve the value we deliver to researchers, research leaders, librarians, funders, healthcare professionals and educators in an open, inclusive and collaborative manner. Learn more: https://www.elsevier.com/