Li Haoyi
Li Haoyi graduated from MIT, has built infrastructure for high-growth companies like Dropbox and Databricks, and has been a major contributor to the open source JVM community. Haoyi has deep experience in the JVM and has used it professionally to build cloud infrastructure, distributed backend systems, programming languages, high-performance web applications, and much more.
Session
The Java language is known to be fast, safe, and easy, but Java build tools like Maven or Gradle do not always live up to that reputation. This talk will explore what "could be" - where current Java build tools fall short of expectations in performance, IDE support, and extensibility - and why there's room to improve. We will end with a demonstration of an experimental build tool "Mill" that makes use of techniques object oriented programming to dramatically simplify the experience of using a Java build tool, proving out the idea that Java build tooling has the potential to be much faster, safer, and easier than it is today.