scala.bythebay.io: John A. De Goes Interview

Recording: scala.bythebay.io: John A. De Goes Interview

you my name is Johnny goes and i am chief technology officer at slam data which is a company i co-founded i was a fairly early adopter of scala bat back before was a big thing probably eight years ago or so and what got me in there initially was i was interested in exploring functional programming and when it comes to the JVM you basically had two choices at the time closure and scala and fast forward to today and things haven't changed much you basically still have those same two choices and i like static types they help me reason about software better so i went with scala and I've actually used it at probably two of the past three of the past companies including the one that acquired our company inserted adopting Scala as a result of that acquisition so our sack right now consists of a lot of type level libraries such as matreshka and actually it's not type of well it's Scala Zed but there's a there's a type level equivalent called cats and HTTP 4's which integrates with scholars at stream which we also use and I would say that's close to an ideal stack for the class of problem that we solve it's not quite ideal there's sort of lots of competing choices in the Scala ecosystem and things haven't settled down enough haven't entirely gone with with cats and a lot of stuff is is on scala zed so we're split right down the middle but ideally we would be on a totally unified stack but not all that different in functionality than what we're using today yes I'm I'm interested in chatting with a bunch of people i know from the scala community including albert king and miles Saban and pulse nightly I'm looking forward to going his talk so yeah it's glad to be here and see so many familiar faces [Music]