Dejan Miličić
Dejan Miličić is an enthusiastic consultant and Head of DevRel at RavenDB with over 25 years of experience as a professional software developer designing, writing, and maintaining applications. Dejan is passionate about Open Source, RavenDB, Software Architecture, and Software Professionalism, supporting the Software Crafting Serbia community via workshops and meetups. He is an active proponent of knowledge sharing, professional ethics, and usage of Type Driven Development and Functional techniques to reduce complexity, increase expressiveness, and improve the correctness of software. Dejan works on open-source projects in his spare time, mentors startups in various development phases, and participates in Startup Accelerator programs supporting entrepreneurs through on-site and off-site consultations.
A New Programming Paradigm
Unison is a pure functional language introducing a groundbreaking concept: content-addressed code. On top of the well-known advantages of functional programming, Unison introduces a unique way of representing code, where definitions are identified by their content rather than their location. This unlocks a cascade of innovations: distributed computing without serialization hassles, dependency management without versioning conflicts, and a fundamentally new way of thinking about code and computation. In this talk, we will explore how Unison rethinks core programming assumptions, demonstrating how its novel approach enables seamless distributed execution, robust refactoring, and an entirely different perspective on software evolution.