Rapture: A Stack for Scala built on Typesafety (Virtual Session)

Rapture’s goal is to provide useful libraries for everyday programming tasks, at the intersection between expressivity and typesafety, allowing you to write code which is both elegant and safe in Scala.

I will talk through a few of the modules in Rapture—JSON, I/O, HTML, CSV—explaining how each one uses Scala’s type system to provide better compile-time safety, without making any compromises on the readability of the syntax. After the talk, you should know enough to start using Rapture in your own projects, and to start taking advantage of the greater static guarantees it offers.

In this session we will try an experiment. This will be a virtual session. Jon will be in Lausanne and join us via Google Hangout.

Jon Pretty

Jon has been involved in the Scala community for the last ten years, having launched the first commercial and open-source Scala software back in 2005. Since then, he has successfully deployed Scala projects into small, medium and large businesses, and UK government, but is best known these days for his work on Rapture, Typelevel Scala and more recently Scala Center.