Bio
Gavin King leads the Ceylon project at Red Hat. Gavin is the creator of Hibernate, a popular object/relational persistence solution for Java, and the Seam Framework, an application framework for enterprise Java. He's contributed to the Java Community Process as JBoss and then Red Hat representative for the EJB and JPA specifications and as lead of the CDI specification.
Gavin now works full time on Ceylon, polishing the language specification, developing the compiler frontend, and thinking about the SDK and future of the platform. He's still a fan of Java, and of other languages, especially Smalltalk, Python, and ML.
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Free Ceylon conference in Paris
To celebrate the recent release of Ceylon 1.0, we're putting on a one-day free conference in Paris on Friday, January 24.
Ceylon 1.0 beta now available!
It's been a long three years since my first posts on this site describing our ideas for the Ceylon language. Now, finally, Ceylon 1.0 is feature complete. From the announcement on ceylon-lang.org:
Ceylon M4 released
In case you missed it, we just released the fourth milestone of Ceylon and Ceylon IDE. The next release will be the feature-complete Ceylon 1.0 beta, now due in January. We've also pushed a major update to Ceylon Herd.
Ceylon M2 "Minitel" released
This is the second release of the Ceylon compiler and other command line tools.
Trying out Ceylon's Java interop
Great, I'm finally able to write, compile, and run Ceylon code that uses Java libraries from within Ceylon IDE:
Ceylon IDE M1 release
The first official public release of the Ceylon IDE is out! You can read David's announcement here.
Ceylon M1 "Newton" released
Ceylon en Mexico, DF
Los de JavaMéxico me han invitado a presentar Ceylon en el DF, el 17 de diciembre. (Será la primera vez que intento hablar de technologia en español y estoy temblando.)
Haha! Try compiling this Java code:
