Lambda the Ultimate

Libraries are central to all major scientific, engineering, and business areas, yet the design, implementation, and use of libraries are underdeveloped arts. This workshop is one of the first steps in the process of placing all aspects of libraries on a sound technical and scientific basis through research into fundamental issues and documentation of best practices.

I think this is an important subject. Take a look at the CFP and see if you can contribute something!

I think languages have some way to go in order to enable really good libraries. Among the topics mentioned in the CFP that are of particular interest are: Design of language facilities and tools in support of library definition and use; Extensibility, parameterization, and customization; Distribution of libraries;
Specification of libraries and their semantics.

Google has released a new web toolkit. The possible significant item for LtU is the Java-to-Javascript compiler that is one of the central components of the toolkit. I am unconvinced of the value of coding in java rather than in javascript. However, the marketing folks have been thinking along the same lines as some of the threads here on LtU with respect to static type checking, code completion, etc. Maybe some of the static fans could comment on this?

cheers,
Jess