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.
September 27, 2020
19 min