Last week-end, we were very pleased to attend OSDC.fr, this year again, at Eurosites George V, Paris. OSDC is definitely a great opportunity to meet passionate developers with different culture and expertise. And also yet another reason to drink a beer!

Some really good talks were given this year. To name a few, I really appreciated:

- the Red programming language talk by Nenad Rakocevic,
- the Ruby / C bindings via FFI presentation by Marc-André Lafortune – that’s a really good alternative to the standard way to extend Ruby with C,
- the very good introduction to the Haskell functional programming language Valentin Robert gave, featuring interesting concepts such as lazy evaluation or pure functions.

But for sure the Lua language definitely made the buzz with no more than 3 talks – a talk covering the basics, another one focused on the really impressive LuaJIT project (aka Just-In-Time compiler for Lua), both by François Perrad, and a last one covering its native integration within Redis (aka scripting-branch) by Pierre Chapuis.

Nothing to say that the ability to extend Redis with Lua scripting is a killer feature! For those who are familiar with Tokyo products it is in some ways pretty similar to what has been done within Tokyo Tyrant.

So let met say congrats to all speakers and participants, thanks to the organization team and see you next year!