Etiene Dalcol

Small languages update and discussion

Other people: Christopher Webber Ludovic Courtès Justin Cormack

NodeMCU is an open hardware IoT platform based on eLua for the ESP8266 microcontroller. It allows creating low-cost projects using Wi-Fi and easy scripting in Lua, which makes it great for making wearables, for example. In this talk I'll give an introduction to the platform, show how I built an audio reactive graduation dress and share the materials to get you started on your own wearable project. This talk is ideal for beginners to hardware hacking or Lua enthusiasts looking for project inspiration.

Lua is a very fast and powerful scripting language that can be easily embeddable. It has been shining in industries like game development, for example. Lua is also an excellent tool as a general purpose language and can be used to develop robust applications. Its use in web developments, however, despite its great potential and incredible benchmarks, needs to be more widespread. This talk will mention the current state of Lua in web development, show some benchmarks, compare existing tools and teach developers how to get started with Sailor, an MVC web framework written in Lua.

Session with the GNU Guile and LUA communities

Session with the GNU Guile and LUA communities

Other people: Andy Wingo Christopher Webber Ludovic Courtès Hisham Muhammad Julien Danjou