Caleb Allen
Caleb Allen is a software engineer and the author of VimBindings.jl, a package that brings the power and elegance of Vim to the Julia REPL. He has worked in various startups, developing applications and systems in languages such as Java, Kotlin, and Python, among others. He has a passion for building tools and infrastructure that make software development more enjoyable and productive. He also enjoys learning new programming languages as a hobby, and he discovered Julia in 2020 during the pandemic. Since then, he has been fascinated by Julia's features and performance, and has enjoyed learning and contributing to the Julia ecosystem. He is excited to share his experience and insights developing VimBindings.jl with the Julia community at JuliaCon.
Talks:
18:30 UTC
REPL Without a Pause: Bringing VimBindings.jl to the Julia REPL
VimBindings.jl is a Julia package that emulates vim, the popular text editor, directly in the Julia REPL. This talk will illuminate the context in which a REPL-hacking package runs by taking a deep dive into the Julia REPL code, and articulate the modifications VimBindings.jl makes to introduce novel functionality. The talk will also describe design problems that emerge at the intersection of the REPL and vim paradigms, and the choices made to attempt a coherent fusion of the two.
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