EclipseCon Europe 2013 Day 3: Light my Fire

Again a great day at Eclipsecon :)

I think that this was the most amazing BoF I ever saw at eclipsecon (and I’m not saying that because it was about Sirius ;): we add a lot of attendes, each of them coming with their own domain models (or a demo one) and trying to create modelers using Sirius. After 30 minutes, there were already some nice modelers going on, and although we started to hear the Eclipse band playing many people stayed for… more than 2 hours! I think almost everyone did manage to obtain a modeler and understand how Sirius works, mission accomplished :)

The night at the Nestor bar was amazing, the vibe was definitely good, and as always the Eclipse Fondation staff was warm and kind. That is why I did not manage to get up early enough to have the time to checkout and go to the keynote in time…

How, that was an impressive talk. It convinced me that the barrier for using Scala has been blown up. Now you have tycho integration (just replace “java” by “scala” in your pom.xml), you can mix java and scala in the same project, you have a live interpreter to test your code… Really nice Eclipse integration. The killer feature for me was that you are now able to copy a java class, and when you paste it inside a Scala class the code is automatically (and smartly) converted to Scala.A great talk, and a great speaker. Of course there is still issues related to scala itself (the big VM for example), but Eclipse is ready for Scala.

John made us walk into the jungle of graphical modelers, pointing out all the limitations, mostly in regards to end-user interactions. Funny and interesting.

He worked on a prototype based on JavaFX with instant feedbacks, great layouting, live contextual menus, zoom in and out to navigate into new diagrams, movie, browser or forms live integration… This could be an awesome contribution to Sirius, so that your diagram can be renderred with GMF or JavaFX with the same Modeler Specification.

By the way, Obeo guys gave interviews to InfoQ France that should soon be available :)

And that’s it for this EclipseCon Europe 2013! Great talks, great people, and many interesting discussions.As usual, I’ll end this post series in music, but this time is special for me as this song was made by my music band “Ignition”. Now that you met me, you know my name, so do not hesitate to spam me through twitter or the Mylyn Intent and Sirius forums. See you all at EclipseCon US 2013, already have some exciting talk ideas :)