5 JVM Languages in 50 Minutes

Explore five prominent JVM languages - Clojure, Scala, JRuby, Groovy, and Kotlin - in this concise 44-minute conference talk. Gain insights into the unique features of each language and learn how to quickly get started with them. Discover which language best suits your needs as you delve into this crash course on modern alternative JVM languages. Presented by Joe Kutner, the JVM Platform Owner at Heroku and an experienced JVM expert with over a decade of experience in application architecture and deployment consulting. Kutner, author of "Deploying with JRuby 9k" and other Pragmatic Bookshelf titles, offers valuable insights into these powerful languages that run on the Java Virtual Machine.