Technology, a means to an end. Thibault Imbert

1996 - Discovered BASIC on my dad’s T07.

1998 - Started playing with Flash in my bedroom !

2004 - Teaching programming !

2008 - Joined Adobe (France) !

2010 - Moved to San Francisco (PM for Flash Player) !

2014 - Working on next-gen web authoring tools/services projectparfait.adobe.com

CSS Shapes

Blend modes

Masking

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Technologyto serve a goal.

Focus on the goal, implementation is a detail.

detail.

C++, Objective-C, ActionScript, JavaScript, Java, C#…

Don’t place a technology.

Use the best one to do the best job.

DHTML!Flash

Ajax!Flash

Silverlight!Flash

Familiar?

Native!HTML/JS!

It is about the result, the end goal.

Technologies, come and go.

So I should not care?

Be passionate, stay curious,

and always assume you don’t know.

"The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative

person is to think you know what you're doing.” - Bret Victor

JavaScript will win.

C++ will win.

Obj-C will win.

Dart will win.

Why should one win?

There is no safe bet.

By being religious, you barricade yourself.

You stop learning and start having preconceived ideas.

JavaScript is for “scripting” only.

asmjs.org an extraordinarily optimizable, low-level subset of JavaScript

JavaScript is not object-oriented.

ES6

//  entities.js  module  entities  {                    export  class  Person  {  !            private  message  =  "Hi  my  name  is  ";  !            constructor  (public  name,  public  age,  public  town){                      this.name  =  name;                      this.age  -­‐  age;                      this.town  =  town;              }  !            talk(){                      return  this.message  +  this.name;              }  !            get  isAbove18(){                      return  this.age  >=  18;              }  }

But what if I want static-typing?

www.typescriptlang.org

//  entities.js  module  entities  {                    export  class  Person  {  !            private  message  :string  =  "Hi  my  name  is  ";  !            constructor  (public  name:  string,  public  age:  number,  public    town:  string){                      this.name  =  name;                      this.age  =  age;                      this.town  =  town;              }  !            talk(){                      return  this.message  +  this.name;              }  !            get  isAbove18(){                      return  this.age  >=  18;              }  }

Which will generate plain ES5 compatible JS

var  Person  =  (function  ()  {          function  Person(name,  age,  town)  {                  this.name  =  name;                  this.age  =  age;                  this.town  =  town;                  this.message  =  "Hi  my  name  is  ";                  this.name  =  name;                  this.age  -­‐  age;                  this.town  =  town;          }          Person.prototype.talk  =  function  ()  {                  return  this.message  +  this.name;          };  !        Object.defineProperty(Person.prototype,  "isAbove18",  {                  get:  function  ()  {                          return  this.age  >=  18;                  },                  enumerable:  true,                  configurable:  true          });          return  Person;  })();  

Challenge, run the original Space Invaders ROM in JS

Ported in an hour to JavaScript

Chose the best option (for me) to get the job done.

C# is for Windows developers only

Xamarin

C++ is way too low-level.

C++11

#include  <iostream>  #include  <stdint.h>  #include  <iostream>  #include  <vector>  #include  <algorithm>  !int  main(int  argc,  const  char  *  argv[])  {          std::vector<uint32_t>  data  =  {  234,  76767,  43,  343,  4322,  33,  122  };                    std::sort(data.begin(),  data.end(),  []  (uint32_t  a,  uint32_t  b)  {  return  a  <  b;  });                    for  (auto  i  =  data.begin();  i  <  data.end();  i++)  {                  std::cout  <<  *i  <<  std::endl;          }                    class  MyClass  {                  public:                          MyClass(size_t  size)  :  m_size(size)  {  }                          MyClass(const  char  *str)  :  MyClass(strlen(str))  {  }                          size_t  Size()  {  return  m_size;  }                  private:                          size_t  m_size;          };                    MyClass  obj("Hello!");          std::cout  <<  obj.Size()  <<  std::endl;          return  0;  }

I am a web guy, doing scripting, cool native stuff is hard.

Starry Night by Petros Vrellis

openFrameworks

Functional programming languages are not for real world usage.

Imperative programming is: I want a latte.

Heat some milk. Put it into a cup.

Brew some coffee with a stovetop Moka pot. Pour the coffee into the heated milk.

Thank you.

Functional programming is: I want a latte.

Thank you.

Have a look at F#

let numbers = [ 0..2..20 ] !

val numbers : int list = [0; 2; 4; 6; 8; 10; 12; 14; 16; 18; 20]

var value = Math.abs ( Math.round ( Math.sqrt ( 3.56 ) ) );

let result = 3.56 |> System.Math.Sqrt |> System.Math.Round |> System.Math.Abs

let numbers = [ 0..3..30 ] let square x = x * x !let sumSquare nums = let mutable buffer = 0 for i in nums do buffer <- buffer + square i buffer !let result = sumSquare numbers

let sumSquare nums = nums |> Seq.map ( fun x -> x * x ) |> Seq.sum

Multicore and web apps? No way.

&

myPA  =  [1,  2,  3];      //  incrementation  is  parallelized  on  the  GPU  myPlusPA  =  myPA.mapPar(val  =>  val  +  1);  

myPA  =  [1,  2,  3];      //  incrementation  is  parallelized  on  the  GPU  myPlusPA  =  myPA.mapPar(val  =>  val  +  1);  

OpenCL (behind the scene)

Multicore and web apps? No way.

River Trail bit.ly/qme8BY

You may never use these, but they will make you a better developer, so keep

learning new stuff.

Creativity, but stepping back from technology.

GoalExperiment

FailIterate

Not good!Not good

Looks good!

Looks good!

Success is not an event, it is a process. James Clear.

@thibault_imbert

Thank you!