Featherweight Musings

I'm a research engineer at Mozilla working on the Rust compiler. I have history with Firefox layout and graphics, and programming language theory and type systems (mostly of the OO, Featherweight flavour, thus the title of the blog). http://www.ncameron.org @nick_r_cameron

Monday, October 23, 2006

I need a name...

Virtual types/classes are very cool. I firmly believe that they are a "good thing" in the world of programming language design. Es...

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Alex Buckley, King of the (Java) world!

Friend, former colleague and Imperial alumnus Alex Buckley is now King of the World , or at least, the Java spec. This is very impressive,...

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Expressible and Denotable types

Wildcards were added to Java in version 5 to make generics more useable (that is, more powerful and flexible). Whereas most people understan...

Hello World

I will blog and no one will read (probably). (This is my mission statement.) But if anyone does, then they can expect musings and observatio...

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