Plasma is the new "Hello,World"

An airhacks.fm conversation with Bert Jan Schrijver (@bjschrijver) about:

C64, playing Paper Boy, winter games - the joystick destroyer, BASIC, print, sprites peek and poke, resilience patterns and fault tolerance motivated by a stronger brother, writing text based adventures in BASIC, programming Turbo Pascal on a 486, smoking computers, joining the demo scene and the 28k modem, generating samples - the SVG for music, staring with Java at the university, experimentation with Java Applets, enjoying static imports with Java 5, plasma with an Java Applet, flood prevention simulation in Java, building a text classification system in Java, the beginning of AI with Java, using Java Server Pages and Servlets at an insurance company, combining Groovy with EJB 3, starting OpenValue with 25 people, migration from Java EE servers to quarkus, Quarkus--the comeback of Java EE, WildFly Swarm and "I don't want your Thorntail" podcast episode, Guild42 Serverless Java #slideless presentation, GraalVM made Java appealing again in the server space, EJB pooling could solve lambda cold start problems, from developer the manager - and the end of plasmas, Bert's plasma in JavaScript: github.com/bertjan/html5-canvas-js-plasma, OpenValue is hiring,

Bert Jan Schrijver on twitter: @bjschrijver and github.com/bertjan