Scala with Sofia Vaughn-Jones

CaSE: Conversations about Software Engineering

Joy Clark talks with Sofia Vaughn-Jones about Scala

• Tools
  • Sbt
  • IntelliJ
  • Ensime
  • Gatling
• Frameworks
  • Play
  • HTTP4s
  • Scalaz
  • Cats
  • Shapeless
• Techniques & Materials
  • Coursera
  • Essential Scala
  • Essential Play
  • The Type Astronaut’s guide to Shapeless
  • Functional Programming in Scala ‘The Red Book’
• Sofia’s Blog
• Talks from Sofia
  • Buying into Scala from the Inside and Out
  • Adopting Scala: The Next Steps

Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Sofia’s Journey to Scala (00:00:20)

3. What is Scala? What makes it what it is? (00:01:47)

4. What kind of language is Scala? (00:02:50)

5. What are benefits compared with other languages? (00:03:54)

6. What does it look like? (00:05:31)

7. How easy is it to read code that other people write? (00:06:33)

8. What kind of applications are written in Scala? (00:07:29)

9. What kind of tooling is available to develop Scala? (00:09:50)

10. Libraries and Frameworks in Scala (00:10:35)

11. Testing in Scala (00:12:14)

12. Java Interop (00:13:25)

13. Types in Scala (00:15:21)

14. Monads :) (00:16:59)

15. The Scala Community (00:20:52)

16. Introducing Scala into a company (00:22:59)

17. New Features and Libraries (00:27:10)

18. Techniques for teaching and learning Scala (00:27:52)

19. Sofia’s Scala Sales Pitch (00:32:24)

20. Wrap-Up (00:34:51)