Scala 3 Compiler Academy Journey
summary
Started summer 2021 as online pair programming to reduce compiler maintenance load, it runs two-hour Zoom breakout rooms every three weeks with ~10–20 regular attendees and initially yields ~4 issues fixed per spree. Automation moves a tedious checklist into make.com and Airtable, cutting admin time; mentorship scarcity proves the real scaling bottleneck. A YouTube channel grows to 500+ subscribers and the sprees are being packaged as an open source repo of procedures and templates.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 1:56The Compiler Academy
- 3:15The Journey
- 4:02Summer 2021
- 6:07Inception
- 8:26Shaping it
- 12:30Opening it
- 15:10Team Balancing
- 19:07Experiments
- 19:26Scaling Challenge
- 22:36YouTube Channel
- 31:55Current Objectives
- 34:08Format & Cycle
- 35:31Maintenance Work
- 38:18If you want to start a community...
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