Macros in Scala, Eugene Burmaco. Screencast, slides and photo with scalaby # 6

At the 6th meeting of the #scalaby community, Yevgeny Burmako , EPFL doctoral student, and member of the Scala development team Martin Oderski, spoke. The theme of the presentation was “Project Kepler” - he proposed to add macros to Scala, on which Eugene has been working for the last month.





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The report covered a wide range of topics: from conceptual (what are macros, and why do modern developers need them) to practical ones (what are macros in other languages, what practical value will macros carry in Scala, and how can they be implemented and integrated into tongue).



Of all the meetings held, in my subjective opinion, this was one of the best. There are several reasons for this:

• Eugene's sense of humor, and his deep insight in question;
• The entire meeting had only one central theme, on which attention was focused. There was enough time to fully disclose it, answer all interesting questions, and even, in some places, “go deep into the wilds”;
• By the 6th meeting, many members of the group had already met each other (at least, became familiar :-)), and, therefore, all the arguments in the process are now not only constructive, but also rather emotional.

Once again, a huge respect to the guys from Grodno, who were able to come to the meeting on Saturday, despite the fact that the announcement was made only on Monday!







A screencast was recorded throughout the meeting, so on the soundtrack you will find not only an interesting story by Eugene, but also answers to questions from the audience, with heated off-screen discussions.



In addition, you can familiarize yourself with the presentation slides , and Eugene's feedback on the meeting in his LiveJournal.

UPD: By the way, the founder and inspirer of our Belarusian Scala-community Vasily Remenyuk will be glad to receive an invite to vasil.remeniuk@gmail.com .