Panel: Scalawags
summary
Scala 3 reaches RC1 next week and the ecosystem already lands a compat move: 2.13.5 reads TASTy so Scala 2 can consume Scala 3 artifacts, while tasty-as-bridge work continues. Hands-on reports praise significant-whitespace syntax but call out function-literal curlies as the remaining pain. Loom virtual threads look promising, GraalVM and native focus on startup time, and async DB drivers are still flaky (Quill async backends leak; JDBC wrapped in a thread pool often wins). A half-finished protobuf+NBT/json serializer exists but needs polish; Spark teams experiment with Scala 3 builds.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 16:23Static Blocks in Java Classes
- 23:18Defense of the Jvm
- 33:33Stackless Python
- 34:31Quill
- 44:59Minecraft
- 1:00:02Prediction
