Software

Software I have written.

I have been writing software since QBASIC in elementary school, and I spend a great deal of my time, both working and recreational, learning all I can about new languages, libraries, and algorithms. Programming is more than a skill to me – it’s a passion.

I’ll take this opportunity to mention that my current language of choice is Scala. Previously it was Java, which I taught myself back in high school. I also like C for pedagogical reasons, and I regularly use C++ when writing numerical code. Being strongly in favor of static typing, I am not a fan of most scripting languages, Python included. For a while I was intrigued by X10 and Fortress, but nowadays I am most excited by Rust.

One’s language preferences are often shaped by the libraries and frameworks available for them. Past favorites include Akka, MPI, FFTW, BLAS/LAPACK, and Thrust, along with Scala’s collections framework and the Java Class Library. And I’ve recently been intrigued by Delite and Legion as having potential for achieving high productivity and high performance. Along similar lines, Halide is inspiring for its separation of logic and execution (without giving up control over either).

I write most of my code in either NetBeans or Vim.