Scala: Beyond the basics

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But for now, here’s a little taste of what went down during last year’s JAX London!

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What can you do in Scala that you can’t do in Java? What are the practical uses of more advanced language features? What could the future hold for Java?

In this session, Christopher Batey covers specific language features with their use cases:

Function composition as an alternative to layered architectures
Functional approaches to implement dependency injection
Writing reusable code with higher kinded types
Avoiding mutability with expressions
Compile time checked serialization with generic programming. As well as posing some higher level questions about language features:
Why do we embrace runtime reflection frameworks but fear compile time implicit parameters?
Ease of initial understanding vs long-term productivity of a language
Simple vs familiar language features and patterns. The goal of this talk is for you to learn some specifics about language features not yet in Java as well as to get you excited about programming languages in general.

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Christopher Batey is a Senior Engineer at Lightbend. He works primarily in Scala but also spent 10 years writing Java and a couple of years writing Go. Currently, he works on the core Akka team responsible for developing core Akka, Akka HTTP, and Akka Streams. He has previously built trading systems, online television platforms and worked extensively with Apache Cassandra. You can check out his blog at https://www.batey.info or follow him on Twitter @chbatey.

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