I’m a long long way from home.
And this poor lonesome cowboy.
Has got a long long way to roam …
That’s right, EclipseCon 2010 is over. Each year it gets better and better and leaving it is always a bit sad. I’ll use this blog post as a memento of my feelings and the things I noticed during this week:
- Many people are using EMF Compare. That should not be a surprise as it provides a key feature for anybody working with models, but still it gives me a warm feeling :) The ECon attendees provided me a lot of very relevant feedback; among others it looks like scalability is not so nice when one is using a big model. Don’t worry, I’ll work on that (in fact I already started) and you can expect a performance boost, even for the generic engine. More of that in a future blog post with figures.
- People are now used to the idea of e4 is going to exist; it will provide new means for writing applications. I also have the feeling that people understood that e4 is going to be what WE — as a community — want it to be.
- Chocolate fountains are not mandatory, but some bugs will always arise (bug 300500).
- ATL is definitely THE model-to-model transformation language — it’s mature, and now thanks to William’s work the tooling is a bit closer to the perfection.
- CDO is one of the most amazing frameworks I had the chance to use. It’s quite unbelievable that such a small and slim framework can provide such power. You need years of engineering and professionalism to achieve this. Congrats to the whole CDO Team!
- I have a lot of hope for the Mylyn Review project; the approach is simple but perfect for people like me — it will just be “yet another key feature” of the IDE. In fact the whole Mylyn project is providing, as usual, innovations.
- The Sharks Rocks! They blasted the Dallas Stars! And I guess I’ll be more interested in hockey now :)
- Pascal has not been abducted by aliens; he is still the same, although being transformed into a Maven guy now.
- Modeling is everywhere. It’s just pervading everything: from your IP Log to the next generation platform you’ll rely on.
- End users really appreciated the work I did on the modeling package. Here again, thanks for your feedback.
- Xtext was everywhere, and will be a key asset for the upcoming IDE generation.
- The Eclipse Foundation did a tremendous work for this event, and it’s been perfect! Thanks again!
- Acceleo is so powerful that many people expressed their wish to use it for their code generation needs: step one on the “taking over the world” plan is validated.
- Nasa, Rockets and Robots are cool.
- The Architecture Council is taking more and more initiative and Martin is doing a great job driving it.
- Then you start smoothly, learn things and code: I can fill my addiction.
- It’s possible to create a conference program of high quality (the best I had in the previous four years to my opinion), with such a diverse community. Kuddos to Oisin!
I’m pretty sure I’m forgetting things, but anyway, I really need to sleep now…
In a nutshell: the best conference ever :)