Hello From the Other Side: An F# expat after a year of Scala (Lincoln Atkinson)

Like Springfield and Shelbyville, Eagleton and Pawnee, .NET and Java are parallel settlements in the programming world, ostensibly rivals but rooted in shared ideas. In similar fashion, F# and Scala have emerged in recent years as leading alternative languages on these platforms, each embracing a multi-paradigm approach with an emphasis on functional principles.

After 8 years of .NET and F# development at Microsoft, Lincoln Atkinson recently finished his first year as a Scala dev at Redwood City startup Sumo Logic. What's it like to go from F# to Scala, from .NET to Java? What's familiar, what's foreign? From syntax to tooling to type inference and more, we'll talk about how these ecosystems compare in the real world.

The speaker

Lincoln Atkinson (https://twitter.com/LincolnAtkinson) is a senior software engineer at Sumo Logic, working on the client data collection agent and first-tier cloud services. Prior to joining Sumo he served a tour of duty at Microsoft, building IT management products in System Center, then becoming a functional programming hippie contributing to the F# compiler and Visual Studio tools. Lincoln studied applied mathematics at UCLA and University of Washington.

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Agenda

• 6:30: meet & greet

• 7:00 - 8:30: presentation