Pure Java Inception

An airhacks.fm conversation with Christian Humer (@grashalm_)
about: early programming experiences with DOS text Adventures and
Captain Comic, transition from graphics design to computer science,
work on Java Server Pages (JSPs) and point-of-sale systems,
development of Swing GUI for touchscreens, introduction to GraalVM
and Truffle framework, ActionScript, Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex,
explanation of Futamura projections and partial evaluation in
Truffle, discussion on the challenges of implementing dynamic
language runtimes, de-optimization in JIT compilers, Nashorn
JavaScript engine vs. GraalJS, language interoperability in
GraalVM, reuse of libraries across different programming languages,
embedding of JavaScript and React in Java applications, comparison
with PyPy in the python ecosystem, current work on bytecode DSL for
generating bytecode interpreters, the importance of math in
computer science and its relation to programming concepts

Christian Humer on twitter: @grashalm_