In the last decade, a lot of new programming languages have gained popularity. It is not just COBOL, C, C++, and Java anymore. Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Kotlin, Haskell, Erlang, and Swift are becoming more and more popular. It's not just about popularity but economics too. These programming languages are used to make their users more productive and efficient.
For example, WhatsApp, which was bought by Facebook for $16B, had only 35 engineers developing and operating its platform supporting half a billion users. They developed their platform in one of the languages above.
Join us on
August 24, 2020 at 11 a.m .ET (5 p.m. in Prague) when we will review the most important modern languages, learn about best use cases for them, discuss how they can be used on different platforms.
Presenter: Petr Plavjanik (
@Petr Plavjanik)
Petr is a software architect working with the Zowe project that opens and simplifies the usage of the mainframe. He has more than a decade of experience working on core mainframe products as well as automation and web enablement of mainframe infrastructure. Petr has a very good experience with multiple platforms and knowledge of many programming languages used on these platforms.