David Nolen: Immutability: Putting The Dream Machine To Work JSConf2014

We live in a time of vast computational resources many of us carry around in our pockets what just thirty years ago would have been considered a supercomputer. But it s not just the hardware, these bite sized supercomputers run software using state of the art dynamic compilation techniques to deliver stellar performance without sacrificing flexibility. While all of this may sound incredibly futuristic, many of us still program these Dream Machines with miserly techniques not far removed from the best pra