Closing Panel
summary
Panel reports concrete progress: ScalaFix uses compiler symbols and types to do accurate, batch refactorings (unused imports removal, automated migration between Scala versions, and renames from deprecation warnings are already possible in prototypes), ScalaFormat gains adoption across projects and is being used to reformat large codebases, sbt hits a 1.0 milestone, Cats Effect nears a 1.0 release, Dotty has an open PR to replace braces with a 'with' block indentation model, Scala docs and error messages improve, and 27 volunteers run the conference.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Conference recap
- 1:13Introducing Scala panelists
- 15:17Significant whitespace in Scala
- 26:19Scala features Q&A
- 33:05Library authors and evolution
- 41:14Scala tooling opinions
- 49:16Exciting Scala developments
- 53:35Closing remarks
