How I Rebuilt the Typelevel Ecosystem with Fury

Featuring Jon Pretty

Fury is a new build tool and dependency manager for Scala, based on a radical new model of source dependencies and distributed builds. The Typelevel ecosystem offers a platform of many useful Scala projects which have been converted to use Fury.

The Death of Final Tagless

Featuring John De Goes

Final tagless. The topic strikes fear into the hearts of Scala developers everywhere—and not without reason. Final tagless allows developers to build composable Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) that model interaction with the outside world. Programs written using the final tagless style can be...

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Kotlin vs Scala

Featuring Urs Peter and Joost Heijkoop

You have almost 20 years of Scala experience and have experience with many other languages. Recently you have jumped onto Kotlin, because it looks very promising as Java competitor. Of course there is no one size fits all solution. Joost will show how the two languages compare and explain why and...

Keynote: Conveying the Power of Abstraction

Featuring Dr Eugenia Cheng

Abstract mathematics is sometimes thought of being very far removed from real life, perhaps something that people think about with their head in the clouds as opposed to the sort of applied maths and science do when people are thinking about "reality". And yet, many of you who work in...

Scala eXchange 2018 Opening - Welcome to Day 1!

Featuring Dave Gurnell

Ciris: Functional Configurations

Featuring Viktor Lövgren

Configurations can be a time bomb waiting to explode. In fact, configuration errors have become a major cause of failures in large-scale systems. Many of these issues arise because configuration values are not validated upfront.

Reinforcement Learning in Scala

Featuring Chris Birchall

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful machine learning paradigm that has been successfully applied to a wide class of problems, from steering helicopters to predicting stock prices. During this talk you will find out what RL is all about and how to implement it in Scala. Chris will introduce...

Lightning Talk: Britain’s Computing Education Problem Can Be Fixed

Featuring James Belsey

The new Computing Curriculum describes a genuinely useful and durable set of computing skills. Simon Peyton Jones and others have worked extremely hard to make this a reality for the UK. The new curriculum does a much better job than its predecessors in preparing students for a career in...

Lightning Talk: MTL in 15 minutes

Featuring Pere Villega

This year MTL (and cats-mtl) have come to the forefront. But, what is MTL? How does it work? And how can it help my codebase? In this lightning talk, you will get an introduction to MTL and an answer to all those questions, so you can start exploring this new technique.

Embrace the Implicit

Featuring Anna Bladzich

Implicits are often regarded with suspicion by developers, with some teams going as far as banning them from their codebases.