Scala Talks: Solving Scala's Build Problem with Mill & Development with IntelliJ

🎉 Come along to the London Scala Talks! 🎉
In this event you'll hear from Haoyi Li and Jędrzej Rochala.

Agenda
6:00pm - 🥤 Doors open. Come along and grab a drink!
6:40pm - 🗣️ Jędrzej Rochala: Compiler-First Development: A Fresh Take on Scala in IntelliJ
7:20pm - 🍕 Intermission: Join us for some free food and drinks! Vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options are provided. Let us know if you'd like something special - we'd be happy to accommodate.
7:50pm - 🗣️ Haoyi Li: Solving Scala's Build Problem with the Mill Build Tool
8:30pm - 🥤 Socialising: Grab a drink and let's discuss the talks.
9:00pm - 🍻 Join us in The Butcher's Hook and Cleaver pub to discuss the talks!

🌐 This event has a live stream. Join the webinar here at 6:40PM.

🗣️ Jędrzej Rochala: Compiler-First Development: A Fresh Take on Scala in IntelliJ
In this talk, I will introduce a fresh take on the Scala Plugin in IntelliJ IDEA based on the standard Scala compiler.
This approach delivers zero false positives, dramatically improves performance and enhances syntax highlighting - all while maintaining robust Java interoperability. On top of that, you can expect correct diagnostics popping up instantly, without any need of saving the files. Did I also mention that compiler plugins are also supported out of the box?
And that's not even all the features. Join us to discover all of them.

⭐ Jędrzej Rochala ⭐
Jędrzej is an engineer at VirtusLab contributing to the Scala 3 compiler and Metals.

🗣️ Haoyi Li: Solving Scala's Build Problem with the Mill Build Tool
Mill is a Scala build tool that improves upon every aspect of the venerable SBT toolchain: more performant, easier to understand, and scalable to larger codebases. Unlike most build tools, Mill makes build configuration easy: easier to write, easier to navigate, and easier to understand. This talk will explore how Mill works, demonstrate its advantages over SBT in a live-coding setting, and dive into the novel techniques that a modern build tool uses to improve upon older build tools of years and decades past.

⭐ Li Haoyi ⭐
Li Haoyi graduated from MIT with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering, since then has built core infrastructure for high-growth companies like Dropbox and Databricks, and has been a major contributor to the open source community. Author of the "com-lihaoyi" suite of OSS Scala projects, these projects have over 10,000 stars on Github, and are downloaded over 20,000,000 times a month. Haoyi has deep experience in the JVM and has professionally built distributed backend systems, programming languages, high-performance web applications, and much more.

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