Chris Swan is an Engineer at Atsign, building the atPlatform, a technology that is putting people in control of their data and removing the frictions and surveillance associated with today’s Internet. He was previously a Fellow at DXC Technology where he held various CTO roles. Before that he held CTO and Director of R&D roles at Cohesive Networks, UBS, Capital SCF and Credit Suisse, where he worked on app servers, compute grids, security, mobile, cloud, networking and containers. Chris co-hosts the Tech Debt Burndown Podcast, and is a cloud editor for InfoQ.
Chris Swan
Engineer, Atsign
What to expect from Dart & Flutter on RISC-V
Arm has dominated the mobile space since the dawn of smartphones, but systems based on the open source RISC-V instruction set architecture will bring new choices for manufacturers and us, their customers. RISC-V SDKs showed up in the Dart dev channel in Apr 22, but it's still pretty hard to build stuff due to lots of missing dependencies. As always happens with new stuff, the hardware people are waiting for broader software support, and the software people are waiting for a larger hardware installed base. This talk will examine the forces that are driving RISC-V forward, and what developers can expect from a world that will have RISC-V devices, mobile phones, tablets and cloud services.