Lang.NEXT 2012 Expert Panel: Native Languages

Julia is a dynamic language in the tradition of Lisp, Perl, Python and Ruby. It aims to advance expressiveness and convenience for scientific and technical computing beyond that of environments like Matlab and NumPy, while simultaneously closing the performance gap with compiled languages like C, …

We are engaged in the design of a new object-oriented educational programming language called Grace. Our motivation is frustration with available languages, none of which seems to be suited to our target audience: students in the first two programming courses who are learning to program in an objec…

The next iteration of the ECMAScript standard, expected to be ECMAScript 6, has been making solid progress since the completion of ES5 in 2009.  Targeting standardization in 2013, ES6 is on track to bring significant new runtime and syntax features to one of the world's most broadly used progr…

R is a strange, deeply flawed language that nevertheless has an enthusiastic and rapidly growing user base. What about R accounts for its popularity in its niche? What can language designers learn from R's success?