scala.bythebay.io: Eugene Burmako Interview
Recording: scala.bythebay.io: Eugene Burmako Interview
you so my name is Eugene Bamako I will be starting at Twitter next week and I will be a senior software engineer in the engineering effectiveness department all right that so it was actually quite fun back then when I was still in Belarus in my home country I got really interested in some compiler projects so but I just came up with some ideas than hacked up on them back then i was using c sharp and then moved on to some new ideas at some point I realized that something that they hacked a similar thing it was already implemented by the Martin Luther skis lab called lamp and I read the paper about that I was like oh my god so what are these guys doing I was so excited that they immediately wrote an email to Martin who later became my doctoral advisor when I moved to Switzerland and this is basically how I got introduced to scala martin said that everything that the lab is doing is done in scala so i had to learn it pretty quickly that was a fun ride well essentially I started writing the Scala compiler and in the meanwhile while we writing the compiler you've learned a lot about the language [Music] alright that's a that's a very interesting question so sometimes conferences I get well since I'm a part of the Scala team coming from the EPFL side of the team sometimes I get questions about popular libraries like a cow or play but actually what we're doing there at EPFL is quite different from i would say normals call development so the thing is that the Scala compiler it's just a problem it's just a program that's written in Scala and it didn't have any external dependencies where well there are some there's Jay line for instance there's a sm but we're mostly self-contained and as a result it's pretty fun so we just get to build our own stuff and we get to work with early ide builds that that provides support for language features that we've just hacked and that's a very very exciting endeavor in our cell so essentially we're building our own stack and it's a fun ride awesome so there's the stock that will happen later today I will be given by a stew hood he's my future colleague at at the engineering effectiveness department and there he will be talking about the advancement in the pants billtoe that developed in Twitter so it's developed internally but the results are open source I'm really looking forward to getting updates about pants and seen what Stu and his team have cracked up [Music] you