SF Scala: A Metals Retrospective By Chris Kipp
ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference In 2020 there was almost 700 merged PRs to Metals! We saw 13 releases that brought all sorts of new features, plenty of bugfixes, and new exciting integrations. At the end of the year the Metals team gathered feedback from users which gave us some great insight into questions users have, features that are desired, and even what the breakdown looks like for various build tools, editors, and build servers. In this talk I hope to address all of these by giving an overview of the newest features and large changes that happened this past year, giving a preview of what is likely to come this year, and also spend some time addressing common misconceptions that users may have about Metals and the Metals ecosystem. About our speaker: Chris Kipp (https://twitter.com/ckipp01) Chris Kipp is a Software Engineer at Lunatech. He's an avid fan of Neovim, simple tech, and enjoys working on tooling. He's one of the current maintainers of Metals, the Scala language server. Event: SF Scala on March 6th, 2021 For details of our future upcoming events or to join our slack/discord communities visit: https://www.sfbayareatechies.com/