Name: Jon Pretty: Magnolia: Generic Derivation 2.0
Start: 2017-11-13T18:30:00Z
End: 2017-11-13T21:30:00Z
Location: Skills Matter at CodeNode

This month we've got Jon taking about his new library. You'll need to sign up in the SkillsMatter page at https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/10359-magnolia-generic-derivation-2-0

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In the last few years, typeclasses have become an increasingly popular tool for solving a wide variety of problems Scala developers encounter every day. But while typeclasses can be composed in entirely predictable ways from smaller primitive types to support larger abstract datatypes, there's no support offered from the language to do this.

For a while, Shapeless has been an admirable enabler, leveraging implicit search and a couple of macros to provide automatic derivations, but its approach to the problem is the cause of very slow compile times; the definitions needed to derive a typeclass are often verbose, type-heavy and complex; and, when derivation fails, the user gets no debugging feedback.

Magnolia basically fixes all of these problems.

Noel Markham

London Scala User Group

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This month we've got Jon taking about his new library. You'll need to sign up in the SkillsMatter page at https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/10359-magnolia-generic-derivation-2-0

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