A Dozen Cool Things You Can Do with JVM Languages

Explore a dozen innovative capabilities unique to JVM languages in this 51-minute Devoxx conference talk. Discover how languages beyond Java offer powerful features like tail call optimization, special compiler support, and advanced library functionalities. Learn to read files, rewrite code, manage resources automatically, implement traits, utilize pattern matching, create XML, and employ extension methods. Gain insights into fluent syntax and garbage collection techniques that set these languages apart. Enhance your programming toolkit with these 12 cool, practical, and often easier-to-implement alternatives to traditional Java approaches.

Introduction
Read a file
Rewrite code
Garbage collector
Automatic Resource Management
Traits
Example
Pattern Matching
Creating XML
Tailcall optimization
Extension methods
Fluent syntax