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YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhfuuWm3SHE
Scala Days NYC happened and two of us were there. And the Scala Center launched, with Heather as its Executive Director.
Your hosts this episode: Josh Suereth, Dick Wall, Heather Miller, Seth Tisue
Join us during and between episodes for web-based Scalawags chat on Gitter.
Intro (0:00)- Dick Wall was swallowed whole by a new Scala + GIS job
- favorite talks, favorite moments?
- Heather: Scala Native talk, by a hilarious Denys Shabalin
- Scala.meta:
- Seth: favorite moment: Eugene Burmako's outfit
- the talk (Scala.meta progress report) was good too (Heather concurs)
- projects are beginning to appear now based on Scala.meta
- for example, Ólafur Páll Geirsson's Scalafmt code formatter
- Josh predicts future Scala.meta based tooling improvements
- Scala.meta is beta now. new inline and meta keywords
- important links:
- Dick: how big are the binaries produced?
- we don't know -- somebody want to try the getting-started instructions in Jos Dirksen's blog post and see?http://www.smartjava.org/content/getting-started-scala-native
- Josh: hey did you know Swift compiles to Android now?
- Dick wants Scala Native for use on AWS Lambda so he doesn't have to wait for the JVM to start up
- (a bit later, Lutz Hühnken suggests using Scala.js for this)
- Josh: what's the GC story? Heather: it's Boehm for now
- Heather: region-based memory management could be exciting here, but that isn't the direction currently
- Seth: could the Scala Center make Scala Native happen, if Giant Incorporation Inc. wrote a big check?
- Heather: "hypothetically yes". it came up at the first advisory board meeting
- but the check must be comically physically large
- Heather: the Scala Center is working on a Scala package index
- with data scraped from Maven Central, GitHub, Stack Overflow, etc.
- help users discover libraries and add the latest version to your project
- much less widely used languages have this, why shouldn't Scala?
- there's no URL or repo yet. it was demoed at Scala Days NYC and will be launched and open-sourced at Scala Days Berlin in June
- if you want to help, wait until then. or ask on https://gitter.im/scala/center
- a big refactor is in progress, after it's done will be a better time
- it shows you the Scaladoc for any library
- Josh: does it do Scala X-Ray?
- which is a moribund project of Mark Harrah's for producing syntax-highlighted, hyperlinked Scala source code in HTML format: https://github.com/harrah/browse
- Seth: hey somebody looking for open-source work to do, revive this and hook it up to Scaladex! (beat Josh to it!)
- Timothy Perrett commented: "Man, scala xray, that takes me back! here's an example of xray for those who are interested! http://harrah.github.io/browse/samples/sbt/sbt/Analysis.scala.html"
- oh hey wait we didn't intro the Scala Center, which has now launched
- it is in Switzerland, not California
- it is a university-based non-profit
- the university (EPFL) scrutinizes the non-profit angle heavily
- two big goals: open source and education
- the Scala MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) was "the biggest MOOC by far" at EPFL
- new MOOCs coming, still via Coursera
- one on parallel programming, by Aleksandar Prokopec
- content similar to his book: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Concurrent-Programming-Aleksandar-Prokopec/dp/1783281413
- one on parallel programming, by Aleksandar Prokopec
- Dick: will Scala Center revive the SIP/SLIP process? Heather: yes! we hired for this.
- a spontaneous "recovering former SIP/SLIP coordinator" support group forms
- Scala Native again:
- a listener (Timothy Perrett, who represents Verizon on the Scala Center advisory board) asks about Scala Native and the Scala Center
- Heather: at the advisory board meeting, we concluced that direct Scala Center involvement would be premature right now, but we expect that to change. the board voted that the Center should get involved when appropriate
- notes from the advisory board will be published
- there's a ton of Scala Days stuff we didn't get to
- will Scala Days NYC talk videos be available? yes, as always. as of June 14 they are not yet available
- keep checking http://scaladays.org
41 episodes
Archived series ("HTTP Redirect" status)
Replaced by: scalawags.tv
When? This feed was archived on December 02, 2017 16:21 (). Last successful fetch was on August 17, 2017 14:32 ()
Why? HTTP Redirect status. The feed permanently redirected to another series.
What now? If you were subscribed to this series when it was replaced, you will now be subscribed to the replacement series. This series will no longer be checked for updates. If you believe this to be in error, please check if the publisher's feed link below is valid and contact support to request the feed be restored or if you have any other concerns about this.
Manage episode 150105270 series 60604
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhfuuWm3SHE
Scala Days NYC happened and two of us were there. And the Scala Center launched, with Heather as its Executive Director.
Your hosts this episode: Josh Suereth, Dick Wall, Heather Miller, Seth Tisue
Join us during and between episodes for web-based Scalawags chat on Gitter.
Intro (0:00)- Dick Wall was swallowed whole by a new Scala + GIS job
- favorite talks, favorite moments?
- Heather: Scala Native talk, by a hilarious Denys Shabalin
- Scala.meta:
- Seth: favorite moment: Eugene Burmako's outfit
- the talk (Scala.meta progress report) was good too (Heather concurs)
- projects are beginning to appear now based on Scala.meta
- for example, Ólafur Páll Geirsson's Scalafmt code formatter
- Josh predicts future Scala.meta based tooling improvements
- Scala.meta is beta now. new inline and meta keywords
- important links:
- Dick: how big are the binaries produced?
- we don't know -- somebody want to try the getting-started instructions in Jos Dirksen's blog post and see?http://www.smartjava.org/content/getting-started-scala-native
- Josh: hey did you know Swift compiles to Android now?
- Dick wants Scala Native for use on AWS Lambda so he doesn't have to wait for the JVM to start up
- (a bit later, Lutz Hühnken suggests using Scala.js for this)
- Josh: what's the GC story? Heather: it's Boehm for now
- Heather: region-based memory management could be exciting here, but that isn't the direction currently
- Seth: could the Scala Center make Scala Native happen, if Giant Incorporation Inc. wrote a big check?
- Heather: "hypothetically yes". it came up at the first advisory board meeting
- but the check must be comically physically large
- Heather: the Scala Center is working on a Scala package index
- with data scraped from Maven Central, GitHub, Stack Overflow, etc.
- help users discover libraries and add the latest version to your project
- much less widely used languages have this, why shouldn't Scala?
- there's no URL or repo yet. it was demoed at Scala Days NYC and will be launched and open-sourced at Scala Days Berlin in June
- if you want to help, wait until then. or ask on https://gitter.im/scala/center
- a big refactor is in progress, after it's done will be a better time
- it shows you the Scaladoc for any library
- Josh: does it do Scala X-Ray?
- which is a moribund project of Mark Harrah's for producing syntax-highlighted, hyperlinked Scala source code in HTML format: https://github.com/harrah/browse
- Seth: hey somebody looking for open-source work to do, revive this and hook it up to Scaladex! (beat Josh to it!)
- Timothy Perrett commented: "Man, scala xray, that takes me back! here's an example of xray for those who are interested! http://harrah.github.io/browse/samples/sbt/sbt/Analysis.scala.html"
- oh hey wait we didn't intro the Scala Center, which has now launched
- it is in Switzerland, not California
- it is a university-based non-profit
- the university (EPFL) scrutinizes the non-profit angle heavily
- two big goals: open source and education
- the Scala MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) was "the biggest MOOC by far" at EPFL
- new MOOCs coming, still via Coursera
- one on parallel programming, by Aleksandar Prokopec
- content similar to his book: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Concurrent-Programming-Aleksandar-Prokopec/dp/1783281413
- one on parallel programming, by Aleksandar Prokopec
- Dick: will Scala Center revive the SIP/SLIP process? Heather: yes! we hired for this.
- a spontaneous "recovering former SIP/SLIP coordinator" support group forms
- Scala Native again:
- a listener (Timothy Perrett, who represents Verizon on the Scala Center advisory board) asks about Scala Native and the Scala Center
- Heather: at the advisory board meeting, we concluced that direct Scala Center involvement would be premature right now, but we expect that to change. the board voted that the Center should get involved when appropriate
- notes from the advisory board will be published
- there's a ton of Scala Days stuff we didn't get to
- will Scala Days NYC talk videos be available? yes, as always. as of June 14 they are not yet available
- keep checking http://scaladays.org
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