Airhacks.fm #104 - Trains, Filmschool, Java on RaspberryPI, Quarkus and MicroProfile

How does a kid who soldered relay boards to drive Lego trains from a Commodore 64 end up running Quarkus on a Raspberry Pi? The thread connects film school in a Brussels castle, passenger information systems on real trains, and a deep love for tiny boards with GPIO pins. Adam Bien hosts Frank Delporte as the guest on episode #104 of airhacks.fm to trace that arc.

What we talked about

First computer club experiences and falling for the C64 at age 11
Film school at LUCA Narafi and editing documentaries and cooking shows
Macromedia Director and Lingo, then Flex and ActionScript for video on the web
Building passenger information systems at Televic Rail
Why C# felt like a moving target and Java stayed stable
Teaching kids to code at CoderDojo and Devoxx4Kids
The Raspberry Pi as a powerful and underestimated board, with GPIO as the killer feature
The Pi4J project by Robert Savage and JavaFX on the Raspberry Pi
Running Quarkus with Panache on a Raspberry Pi
Quarkus starting three times faster than Spring on the Pi in JVM mode
Migrating from Spring to Quarkus in a few hours

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