On Saturday 3rd of February, AERO participated in FOSDEM 2024, a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate! The event took place in Brussels, Belgium.
AERO had two presentations in the Free Java Devroom for two of our open-source technologies!
Foivos Zakkak from Red Hat presented Quarkus native, what choices set it apart and how it implements them!
Thanos Stratikopoulos from the University of Manchester presented TornadoVM and how it can be used to unlock hardware acceleration for other programming languages running atop the JVM!
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Useful links:
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1876-exploring-quarkus-native-choices-and-implementation/
https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3085-java-to-unlock-gpu-acceleration-for-polyglot-language-runtimes/