My poster from ongoing ACAT-2019 conference

# science

[altavir]

My poster from ongoing ACAT-2019 conference

ACAT-2019.svg

[dalexander]

Neat poster, surprised to see it’s an SVG. One comment, if Java has a large memory footprint, wouldn’t Kotlin as well? Although I guess K/N could have a small memory footprint?

[altavir]

I've done it in Visio and was very pleased with experience. I've exported it to svg and then used Inkscape to convert it to print-ready pdf.

[altavir]

As for memory footprint, you are of course correct. But I do not think that it is really important for desktop development. Also they say that openj9 significantly optimized it.

[dalexander]

I just expected to see symmetry in the drawbacks since they are both JVM based 🙂 I also found the quote A good programmer could write in any language, but good programmers rarely work in physics. amusing, because it’s true from what little I’ve seen of physics code. Although I think you might be able to make that argument for any field just because “good programmers” are disappointingly uncommon 😞

[altavir]

Yeah. The problem that physicists consider themselves good programmers from 1970s (when they really were). And have a lot of bad habits from using C++

[altavir]

I did not copy all of the benefits as well. So it seems fair.

[dalexander]

Fair enough. I also just noticed a small typo in case you are planning on re-using the poster at some point: One need a modern language with good tooling to write scientific libraries. should be One needs or We need depending on what you were going for. Anyway, thanks for sharing the poster!

[altavir]

I noticed it too. After I mounded the poster 🙂 I am not sure it is possible to create a poster without tipos.

[altavir]

Oh no. It is another one. 😞

[Nikky]

https://bitbucket.org/Altavir/numas thats mentioned on there leads to a 404

[altavir]

Yeah, thanks, second s is missing

[louiscad]

@altavir It's possible to avoid typos. Just send it to me before making it a poster 😜

[bjonnh]

There really is a fetichism of c++ in scientists

[bjonnh]

@altavir I do all my posters in inkscape directly (and use draw.io for complex schemes drawings)

[altavir]

I can say. They were not happy with my anti-C++ rethorics

[bjonnh]

hah