Martin Odersky – A Scala 3 Update

Martin Odersky provides an update on the progress, feature freeze, and library porting status of Scala 3.

Martin Odersky Martin Odersky is the inventor of the Scala language, a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a founder of Lightbend. His work concentrates on the fusion of functional and object-oriented programming. He believes the two paradigms are two sides of the same coin, to be unified as much as possible. To prove this, he has worked on a number of language designs, from Pizza to GJ to Functional Nets. He has also influenced the development of Java as a co-designer of Java generics and as the original author of the current javac reference compiler. A Scala 3 Update Martin will report on recent progress and the current state of Scala 3. In a nutshell: – We are in feature freeze for 3.0 – The SIP committee has done a first pass of reviewing all proposed changes – Key libraries are being ported – There is a growing community build In this talk, Martin also will lay out the next steps of the planned transition and how the community can help in implementing them.