Some Trends in Open Source & the State of the Scala Center
summary
Argues open source is shared digital infrastructure and gives hard numbers: corporate reliance jumps 38% to 78% (2010→2015) and 66% now pick OSS first; many critical projects have tiny maintainers — a study finds about two thirds of the top 133 repos have truck factor one or two — and OpenSSL survived on a near‑single maintainer until Heartbleed. Describes concrete Scala Center outputs: interactive compilation profiling (implicit search and macro counts), Scala Fix refactoring/linting, new collections, SBT/zinc work, Scala‑in‑browser, package index, Scala Native and a cross‑compiler macro framework.
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chapters (29)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:33Trends in Open Source
- 4:51General Open Source
- 5:46Open Source Trends
- 11:03Heartbleed
- 13:22Truck Factor
- 18:26The Department of Defense
- 19:34The general trend
- 20:17How to reverse this
- 21:31Who owns the Scala Center
- 22:22The Scala Center mission
- 22:51Scala Center funding
- 23:38Scala Center goals
- 27:07Interactive Profiling
- 28:03Profile DB
- 28:56Scala Fix
- 29:47Scala Linting
- 30:20New Collections Library
- 31:59Scala in the Browser
- 33:17Autocompletion
- 34:03Contributing Info
- 35:01Websites
- 35:34Scala Native
- 36:51Macros
- 37:30Open Source Spree
- 37:50Open Source Hackathon
- 39:01Scala Center Spree
- 40:23Open Source Infrastructure
- 41:10The Bottom Line
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