Scala: Beyond the basics with Christopher Batey

What can you do in Scala that you can’t do in Java? Why are streams and lambdas not enough for functional programming? What are the practical uses of more advanced language features? We’ll cover specific language features with their uses 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 Abstracting with type classes 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 programing languages in general