It's not long now until the start of Lambda World 2018 and we can't wait to attend, see lots of familiar faces and hopefully some new ones! Let us know if you'll be there and make sure to say hey and grab some Scala swag. In the meantime check out this great talk given by Miles Sabin, Typelevel Co-Founder and Principal Engineer, on Typelevel Scala Rebooted from Lambda World 2016.
Typelevel Scala Rebooted
The Typelevel fork of the Scala compiler has been reinvigorated by the recent community fix for SI-2712, a long-standing problem of type inference for projects which make extensive use of higher-kinded types. Thanks to newly arrived improvements in the compiler build process and SBT it is now dramatically easier to explore and work on compiler internals and use the results in existing Scala projects. Moreover, the experience over the last year of activity and collaboration between other Typelevel projects means that we have a clearer idea of what new language features and compiler bug fixes are really of value to the community. The combination of these developments has lowered the barriers to participation in compiler development and provided focus. In this talk, I will show what’s new in Typelevel Scala, explain how you can use it in your projects today, discuss the collaboration with the Scala team at Lightbend which is making this possible, and encourage you to get involved yourselves.
Miles Sabin
Miles has been doing stuff with Scala for more than twelve years, currently with Underscore Consulting. He is a co-founder of Typelevel and his best-known project, the Scala generic programming library shapeless, is the weapon of choice wherever boilerplate needs to be scrapped or arities abstracted over.
This talk was given by Miles Sabin at Lambda World 2016.